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!
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.
“A generation ago, it was common for important works of history, literary criticism, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural interpretation to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review.”
