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Library of America’s anthology War No More explores a distinctively American tradition of antimilitarism.
Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.
You may have read similar earlier works, but Dominic Smith’s novel is in a class of its own.
Although Anger and Forgiveness is a work of systematic philosophy it is also provocatively personal.
Once and For All asserts the value of Delmore Schwartz’s provocative and multifaceted literary legacy.
Murray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
There are resemblances to Virginia Woolf in Helen Dunmore’s awareness that much of family life lies in what is not said as much as in what is said.
Zero K will prove refreshing to Don DeLillo’s readers in that it’s a novel of faith — a concept that he’s always been skeptical of.
James Traub has admirably captured the man inside the public figure, giving us a complex view of a typical New England grandee.
Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews
The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.
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