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Books
Book Review: “Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound” — Poetry of Common Cause
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Book Review: “Strange Hotel” — Battling the Inner Critic
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
Author Interview: Gish Jen on “The Resisters”
Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?
Book Review: “In the Land of Men” — A Woman in the Boy’s Club of Glossy Magazines
A victim Adrienne Miller is most certainly not: the self-portrait that emerges in her pages is of an accomplished, wise, wittily self-deprecating author of her own destiny.
Poetry Review: Lawrence Joseph’s “A Certain Clarity” — Poetry and Justice
Lawrence Joseph makes the case that representing violence in verse is necessary because of poetry’s value as art: to concisely capture these deadly events.
Book Review: Amina Cain’s “Indelicacy” — Brilliant, But Icy, Minimalism
Amina Cain’s style is unusual, and it may tow readers so rapidly through this brief novel they won’t look back.
Book Review: “A Grief Sublime” — A Lasting Testament to the Power of Words to Sustain and Heal
Here is why you have to read this book: It gives proof to my faith that those beautiful lines and paragraphs created through the ages can comfort in present distress and continue to do so as one heals.
Book Review: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business” — Remembrance of Pages Past
Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.
Author Interview: Jared Ross Hardesty on “Slavery in New England” — More Pervasive Than You Thought
“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”