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Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.
According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”
Pascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.
The Bridal Chair will not only answer many questions about this complicated, famous family; like Chagall’s best work, it will also linger in the mind.
Robert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.
The Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
French writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.
Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy
Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.
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