Jim Kates
In this valuable history, Thomas E. Ricks looks at the critical events of “The Second Reconstruction” as a series of campaigns in a nonviolent war.
This is a grim and uncomfortable book to read because it forces us to contemplate each small poem separately and then take them all together, a hard but necessary exercise.
In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.
Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,
A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.
Theater Commentary: Is It the Right Time for “Our Town”?
These days, I’m not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts.
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