Translator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”
Books
Book Review: Louie’s Blues — Menand Chills With The Cold War Crowd
To his credit, Louis Menand personalizes his historical cast and humanizes ideologies and aesthetics.
Author Interview: Boston’s Joseph Torra — Reflections of a Writer’s Life
“I’m an anarchist as an artist — I write what I want, however I want. I refuse to adhere to the forms that society hands down.”
Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves
Books Promiscuously Read sets a high standard for what might become an exciting new genre of literary criticism for educated general readers.
Book Review: How to Win the War Against Climate Change — Go Electric
Instead of techno-utopian rhetoric, Electrify offers a plan with pragmatic steps to create a better environment and a stronger economy.
Book Review: “Strange Beasts of China” — An Exuberant Chinese Fantasy
The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.
Book Review: “Mississippi Prison Writing” Offers an Unfiltered Look at Life Behind Bars
Many of the pieces in the collection come in the form of a personal diary, and these give us a sense of the day-to-day inner lives of the prisoners.
Book Review: “The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi” — A Lovely Exotic Fantasy
This is a lyrical work: gracefully exaggerating reality is a merit that good poetry and fantasy share.
July Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Author Interview: Aaron S. Lecklider on the Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.