Books
Louise Glück crafts her poems with an insinuatingly thorny power that demands the reader pay close attention.
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An unabridged text of an incisive, harrowing, and absorbing eyewitness account of the Gulag has finally been published in English translation.
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The pathway to tyranny is paved by encouraging people to believe in the uselessness of science, logic, and expertise.
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A taboo interracial romance may not be groundbreaking material for fiction, but Robinson’s spare conflicts are only the means to generate intimations of the profound in the everyday.
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He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history.
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“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
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Front and center in this memoir are BrownMark’s efforts to reconcile his resentment and gratitude toward the man who both sold him short and afforded him the “opportunity of a lifetime.”
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I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.
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Our awareness of our delight in the homicidal temptations presented by film is itself a kind of twisted comedy that the critic is all too aware of.
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Poetry Remembrance: John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” — Forever Young at 200
Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.
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