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Book Review: The King of the Cats Returns — Seamus Heaney’s Complete Poems and the Poetry of Justice
In a monumental new gathering of his work, the Nobel laureate’s poems—of rural labor, private grief, history, and divided Northern Ireland—remain a moral force in a newly fraught moment.
Make what you will of this often page-turning confection, which if not particularly literary, may be a bunch of fun.
Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.
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.
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.
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