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Items of note this quarter:
hidden songs of the Shah
poem with a northern accent
praising strange books
resolutions for resistance
year's best booze books
some genre faves for 2017
a wayback review of Andalucia
Urbivore, a spec-fic story
loving Trader Joe's circular
Lovecraftian Netflix show
Slug Mag on slam
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03.19.18: "Poetry is not so much the subject of Farrell’s book—more like its tricksterish main character." link>> |
03.16.18: " Urrea’s new novel is a clamorous, joyful Mexican-American family saga." link>> |
03.14.18: One Good Mama Bone is a true American hybrid, blending aspects of Southern Gothic, fairytale, and folklore. link>> |
03.13.18: It is William Empson's "counter-thinking which makes him so hilarious and vital." link>> |
03.09.18: A look at Un-su Kim and other Korean authors reinventing the thriller. link>> |
03.06.18: Liz Bourke reviews Book One of the "Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse" series. link>> |
03.01.18: Steven Pinker thinks the world is perhaps not going to hell in a handbasket. link>> |
02.27.18: "Journalism tries to get the little stuff right but often gets the big stuff wrong. Enter Michael Wolff." link>> |
01.12.18: Rayyan Al-Shawaf sees where the creepy stuff begins to seep out in Leila Slimani's The Perfect Nanny. link>> |
01.10.18: "Stephen Spender all too often comes across as a slightly ludicrous figure." link>> |
01.01.18: The fascinating tale of the Great Northern Expedition, which laid the Russian path east through Siberia. link>> |
12.25.17: "… to frame Cuban independence as a process that evolved in Cuba and in relation to the United States alone is to constrain the past." link>> |
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03.19.18: From James Stotts—ever the innovator—a sonnet in half steps. link>> |
03.15.18: On the Pusteblume webpage, a translation of "Please Do Not Disturb, I Am Currently Experiencing a Sleep Revolution" by Nagel. link>> |
03.14.18: Frederick Grant's poem notes the poised balance between a dog's gravity and the dog-walker's uplift. link>> |
03.13.18: Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print a hundred years ago; you should read it. link>> |
03.09.18: Paul Lewis' "The Battle Hymn of the Donald" looks at Trump through the eyes of classic Bostonian authors. link>> |
03.08.18: A celebratory round-up of female authors who blazed trails in the world of sci-fi. link>> |
03.06.18: “You can’t reason with people who want to burn it all down;” Colson Lin sifts through melancholy, integration, and America at the present. link>> |
03.05.18: Rui Zhang looks at the transformations and continuities in Chinese translations of The Arabian Nights. link>> |
03.01.18: Poet physician Rafael Campo on finding humanity in medicine and science. link>> |
02.15.18: Anto Rondón considers the dual nature of knowledge, in a novel, in a film, and in a nation undergoing crisis. link>> |
01.12.18: Science-fiction novelist Samuel R. Delany talks with Slate about the work habits of his queer career. link>> |
01.11.18: Why Dan Kieran of Unbound is giving up reading books by white men. link>> |
01.10.18: An interview, touching on good carpenters and God-culture, with the publicity shy Robert Bringhurst. link>> |
01.08.18: In this story by Shilpi Suneja, a Hindu girl encounters Christianity in her dorms. link>> |
01.05.18: AQR's film version of "Shaawatke'é's Birth", in Tlingit and English, is now online. link>> |
01.04.18: Abhay Kumar makes the case for why India needs a national poetry library. link>> |
01.02.18: Jezebel talks with the author of a new bio of Lucy Parsons, a radical and "walking contradiction of terms." link>> |
01.01.18: "Serenity of the Moon", a new short story by Iraqi writer Jalal Hasan. link>> |
12.29.17: A feature text by Irish performance artist Léann Herlihy, "The sacrificed calf feeds from the swollen udder." link>> |
12.28.17: "Not baiting fish but baiting time"; an angling sonnet by Zoë Sather. link>> |
12.27.17: Susan McDonald explains why she's been reading Auden for 30 years. link>> |
12.26.17: "Its strength comes from the recognition of human frailty"; an interview with poet Mahmoud Darwish. link>> |
12.25.17: Reviewing two collections from Commune Editions, a press which views itself as "a raised fist of new activist poetry." link>> |
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New Books and
Literary News |
03.19.18: Study shows that papers published in high-cost journals don't differ substantially from free pre-prints. link>> |
03.15.18: A trailer for the WGBH series Poetry in America, to broadcast on public television from March 28 through May 2. link>> |
03.14.18: PubTech Connect panelists describe the challenges of publishing across so many platforms, connecting to such fragmented audiences. link>> |
03.12.18: Stephanie Burt remembers, and eulogizes, Lucie Brock-Broido. link>> |
03.09.18: Deadly Woman Blues is an example of the "authorial burdens and responsibilities inherent in publishing other people’s stories." link>> |
03.08.18: "The state of writing in Algeria is excellent." link>> |
03.07.18: "The works of men pass away"; on watching the dance play Memorial. link>> |
03.05.18: Li Jiawen opened a bookstore in Hangzhou that only sells two titles at a time. link>> |
03.02.18: Barnes & Noble to open a set of smaller prototype stores in new fiscal year. link>> |
01.16.18: Boston bids farewell to poet Walter Howard, the open miker's open miker. link>> |
01.15.18: The publisher of the Boston Herald walks away with millions, and no apologies. link>> |
01.12.18: A new antho redresses the lack of women in other compilations of Irish poets. link>> |
01.11.18: Lisa Robertson has won the inaugural $40,000 C.S. Wright Award for Poetry. link>> |
01.08.18: Thinking of Milo, Barbara Fister weighs in on the question of the danger of books. link>> |
01.05.18: Fred Bass, the longtime overseer of 18 miles of books, passes away, leaves his daughter to carry on legacy. link>> |
01.04.18: A trove in Lithuania has been uncovered, containing Yiddish and Jewish literature hidden from the Nazis. link>> |
01.03.18: As goes Book World (RIP), so goes brick-and-mortar book retail nationwide. link>> |
12.29.17: The growing market online in China for literature is feeding a boom of screen adaptations. link>> |
12.26.17: Young writers from India & Pakistan host joint events in New Delhi & Karachi. link>> |
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