Books
Daniel Kehlmann’s narrative gift is so prodigious as to be almost aggravating.
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Dirt has the unsurprising effect of making you hungry; if your mind wanders as you are reading, you’ll probably find yourself thinking of food.
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Here is a splendid biography from which you will learn things you never suspected, a book that will renew your faith in passion and what Louis Bromfield called those peculiarly American traits: integrity and idealism.
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One of the pleasures of The Glass Hotel is how easily digestible it is; the prose rolls off the page, rewarding the reader’s close attention with subtle insights into character and motivation.
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Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.
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What do graphic novels about architecture bring to our understanding of the urban experience? They suggest that buildings can be like our memories — they hide as much as they show.
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Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.
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Few contemporary authors much care to tussle with the proverbial mot juste; Lance Olsen insists on it, and over the course of fifteen novels, five books of nonfiction, and five short story collections, has shown himself a master of prose style.
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Nate Patrin’s magnificently written and wildly informative new book argues for the artistry of sampling, its potential for beauty.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips attempts to combine a woke perspective with his vast knowledge of poetry from the past.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues