Original creative nonfiction exploring ideas in the humanities, often written in a narrative journalistic style by academics or authors with forthcoming books.
On Pittsburgh, United Flight 93, and our century of war.
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New York City. Washington DC. Shanksville, PA. Pittsburgh, PA.
“Despite facing scathing reviews from other poets, Mary Oliver knew who she was writing for.”
A very great novel and its very bad first line; also: Last Call for Henry James!
A roundup of the most engaging recent pieces on the web read by the Pittsburgh Review of Books this week.
Long before “lived experience” became a buzzword, Simone Weil went looking for hers.
[copyeditorial thoughts on a hatred]
“Berry’s work is concerned with the legacy of original sin playing out in territory hostilely claimed by humans and deformed to our purposes.”
“There is a fragility and an innocence to it — a newsprint-wrapped copy of Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass.'”
With shout-outs to Lily Hu, Christoph Schuringa, John Rawls, and Jason Brennan.
