Books
Follow almost any of these police brutality cases to their realpolitik conclusion and you will eventually work your way back to a monstrous truth.
Jack Taylor is a Beckettian character on the skids; he can’t go on, and yet he goes on.
Dorothy B. Hughes is one of the finest female practitioners of noir.
This superb volume is much more than a group of essays; it is a tale with a trajectory fashioned by a writer who is determined to be achingly honest.
Anthony DeCurtis wants to do justice to his subjects’ extensive catalogue, but the book begins to feel less like exegesis and more like Lou Reed 101.
De Hamel’s history is a detective story, a love story, and a revelation of the nourishment to be found in celebrated libraries and collections.
“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”
William Gass’s primal loyalty was to the words composing his texts.
Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.
Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.
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