Interviews
Having published his first poems by the time he was 21 in such venerable magazines as the Partisan Review and the New Yorker, the acclaimed photographer and writer Gerard Malanga here discusses four decades of his life in poetry.
Features
Wild and Whirling Words
edited by H. L. Hix
In an unusual group review, six writers—Charles Altieri, Susan Briante, Elisabeth Frost, Arielle Greenberg, Frederick Turner, and Lorenzo Thomas—anonymously respond to a work of poetry criticism which has poets anonymously responding to other poet's poems. Readers are invited to continue the dialogue therein!
Reviews
FICTION
The Exquisite Corpse
Alfred Chester
Having twice gone out of print and lapsed into literary limbo, this extraordinary prose work's very unavailability helped to elevate it to the cult status by which it is known today.
A Perfect Hoax
Italo Svevo
Svevo's story of an aging “man of letters” who achieves what he believes to be overdue recognition reflects his own belated acclaim for his masterwork, The Confessions of Zeno.
Links
Nuruddin Farah
Farah exposes “a nightmare of loyalties,” the intricate web of interpersonal relationships that perpetuates violence in Mogadiscio.
Do You Hear Them?
Nathalie Sarraute
Originally published in 1972, there has never before or since been such a serious book about the giggles.
The Long Haul
Amanda Stern
In her debut novel, Stern depicts the anguish of a doomed and dangerous relationship between two people who consume each other as ferociously as they consume drugs and alcohol.
The Dead Letter & The Figure Eight
Metta Fuller Victor
and
That Affair Next Door & Lost Man's Lanes
Anna Katherine Green
For readers who think that thrillers about serial killers are a product of our tawdry age, here are four 19th-century sensationalist classics that are titillating, vulgar, and moralistic by turns.
NONFICTION
Owl's Head
Rosamond Purcell
Three memoirs are embedded in this unique book, as artist-collector Rosamond Purcell searches for eye-catching detritus in a scrapyard in the small town of Owls Head, Maine.
Devotional Cinema
Nathaniel Dorsky
Based on a lecture the avant-garde filmmaker delivered at a conference on Religion and Cinema, Devotional Cinema is a celebration of what's sacred about film.
Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond
Agustin Victor Casasola
and
Mexico-New York
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans
Two sumptuous books contrast time and aesthetic in Mexican photography.
Restoring the Burnt Child
William Kloefkorn
A noted poet's second memoir grapples with how 1940s middle America shaped its boys into men.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
and
Responsibility and Judgment
Hannah Arendt
Two profound and sober works by this unshrinking philosopher take on the defining issues of 20th-century politics.
Assembling Art
Barbara Zabel
The author examines four avant-garde artists working in different genres to develop evidence of the new American identity steeped in technology.
POETRY
Fathom
and
Neo-Surrealism; or, the Sun at Night
Andrew Joron
Joron is both a participant and elucidator of the ethereal practice of Neo-Surrealism in these recent publications.
Writing Through
Translations and Variations
Jerome Rothenberg
This unusual "selected poems" provides an intimate portrait of Jerome Rothenberg by incorporating his life-long dialogue with otherness.
The Escape
Jo Ann Wasserman
In Jo Ann Wasserman's riveting and important first collection, she uses her two battling hands to write about her two great preoccupations: “Writing” and “My mother.”
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry
edited by David R. McCann
Koreans have been writing poetry since the rise of their civilization; this anthology provides a generous sampling from the Modern age that shows a range of style and subject.
Living in the Past
Philip Schultz
Schultz's urgent lines tug and travel, propelled by multiple voices, guttural expressions, and Hebrew incantations, all of which becomes the musical embellishment in this book-length memoir in verse.
Trouble in Mind
Lucie Brock-Broido
In her long-awaited third book, Brock-Broido's words, lines, and even line breaks appear so masterfully wrought that they invite the reader to pause and bend close to them—yet that is both their strength and their weakness.
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