Critical reflections on forthcoming books from academic or trade presses, highlighting significant new contributions to literature and scholarship.
The artists of French modernism transformed the way people saw the world. Today, their experiments offer perspective on a new technological revolution.
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“Boos matches the grandness of the site with some bold directorial choices.”
“Set free, or at least on a longer leash, the poet meets and loves cities, books, landscapes, Durer, Monet, Klee, Italy, erotic encounters with women, and Bach, as well as a variety of dogs, from the starved elegance of a Giacometti canine, to the dog she took from a rescue center.”
“Whether writing about her parents’ divorce, her partner’s pacemaker, or a “paraplegic squirrel,” these short poems brim with wisdom and surprise.”
Reading the Poetry of Gerry Crinnin
“Quite a popular writer in her own time, and in ours still remembered vaguely as having written ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,’ she is also a writer’s writer.”
“Compared to their previous collection, there was something so deeply fragile about Fatimah Asghar’s Daughter of the Mountains.”
“He moves between registers without warning, from the lyrical to the analytical to something close to devotional.”
Reviewing Brandon Terry’s New Book on the Politics of Black History
Can a 2,500-year-old epic ever redefine heroism for the 21st century?
