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.
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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.
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In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
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These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.
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Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,
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A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
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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.
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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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