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I wouldn’t be writing this review or asking you to read this book if I didn’t believe that McLane were up to something far more radical and also far more difficult to reckon with—something I am not even sure I can account for. The most significant quality of the poetry in “World Enough” is a profound and unapologetic ambiguity.
Read MoreEvidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
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My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.
Read MoreIs he a murderer? Is she? Who was the victim? His wife? The mistress? The Blue Room is Gone Girl French style, which means more sex, more art, and more enigma.
Read MoreOne answer to the question of “Why two plays in verse?” might be that Denis Johnson is a writer relentlessly in pursuit of new forms, and new formal challenges—a literary daredevil always looking for a new vehicle to take for a thrill ride.
Read MoreGellu Naum does not use the heterogeneous juxtapositions of surrealism to create something jocular, absurd, prankish, or gratuitously paradoxical.
Read MoreMembership in academe comes down to those who never wanted to leave the comforts of college or those who see it as a launching pad for scoring big bucks.
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This is a brilliant book that comes at a propitious time in our country’s history.
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John Patrick Higgins is a deft writer whose prose often displays a spare lyricism.
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