Books
The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.
A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.
Giraldi was enticed by the fraternity of the gym as a way of filling out and firming up both his body and his sense of self.
Frances Wilson’s biography of Thomas De Quincey is superb, written with enormous empathy and insight.
The power of Allen Ginsberg’s legacy could be felt in the controversy over the decision to award Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature.
There is no doubt that Marc Myers is doing noble work — if only Anatomy of a Song was more exciting to read.
Mark Greif’s analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive..
Bad Moon Rising turns out to be justified by new evidence, some of which will be surprising to all concerned.
The Murder of Sonny Liston is an absorbing, albeit speculative, attempt at addressing the mystery that died with the man.

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