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To be silent in the face of cruelty is to be complicit. And I refuse to be complicit. Surely we have to recognize that there are differences in taste. But to skewer another writer with such precision and glee? That is beyond the pale, especially in these perilous times.
Quibbles aside, this book’s profusion of illustrations is a windfall for artists, art students, and those keen on close looking and visual culture.
As befits a prolific and distinguished poet, renowned for his visionary instincts and signature compositional technique, Nathan Kernan has produced an account of James Schuyler that is as morally serious as his subject.
This splendid book is a love letter and a dissertation, almost a song in itself.
The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight.
Eoin Higgins’s “Owned” is a provocative take on our shifting politics and the instrumental role the media plays in how the superrich maintain power.
“In Their Names” argues that the best way to help victims of crime is to create circumstances that will diminish the chance that they will become victims again.
Rachel Hadas’s book of prose poems is a set of meditations grounded in a life well lived and much observed, an experimental field for examining the nature of [human] potentialities.
At its best, Mark Twain emerges in this biography as much a live wire as ever: brash, outspoken, and overflowing with exasperating contradictions.
Arts Remembrance: Fanny Howe — A Poet for the Spiritually Audacious
Fanny Howe’s writing pursued, as she put it, “bewilderment as a poetics and a politics.”
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