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04.06.20:
Contemplating South Africa's traumas through the idea of lost language.
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11.14.19: "Literary governesses never have it easy"; Robert Allen Papinchak reviews Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson. link>> |
11.05.19: Corey Robin wants us to see through Justice Thomas’s eyes, "no matter how troubling this perspective may be." link>> |
10.31.19: "Many readers will wonder whether Ransom is a poet worth troubling over, these decades after his death..." link>> |
10.30.19: "The reader is both relieved and delighted that A Pure Heart redeems itself." link>> |
10.29.19: Gene Meyer reviews the story of socialite Gertrude Sanford Legendre, a six-month “guest” of the Third Reich. link>> |
10.23.19: Running parallel to The Iliad, Michael Hughes' Country tells of love, friendship, and war during Ireland’s Troubles. link>> |
02.15.19: Is Andrés Neuman's Fractura "one of the great literary events of 2018?" link>> |
02.11.19: "When in the moment of your own sadness, it can feel as if the hammer is the only tool for poetry." link>> |
02.08.19: " Girondo’s poems often engage the modern urban environment as a site of imitation, simulation, or spectacle." link>> |
02.07.19: Kevin Power on Jonathan Franzen’s nonfiction volumes: "Like the curate’s egg, they are good in parts." link>> |
01.31.19: " Becoming is a contemporary woman’s adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator." link>> |
01.25.19: " Reproduction manages to be witty, playful, and disarmingly offbeat, as it hums with serious themes." link>> |
01.23.19: 'We can do better than a feminism that is marriage-naturalizing, anti-communist... yet tacitly opposed to sluts.' link>>
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Excerpts, Features
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11.06.20:
Nina Cason poetically argues a defense of Milton's much-maligned Dalila. link>> |
04.17.20: From Georgia Park, a new story about a young woman inside an iron lung, tended by an overbearing mother. link>> |
04.16.20:
Margaret Jull Costa translates the "Dickinsonian wit and wordplay" of Ana Luísa Amaral's "The Battle." link>> |
03.31.20: Mallarmé's genre-defying, self-referential life-work, The Book, is finally available in English translation. link>> |
11.15.19: At Empty Mirror, a lush essay exploring William Blake’s influence on Ginsberg. link>> |
11.14.19: Jonathan Han reviews some of the thinking on the subject of hyphenation and dual identity in the US. link>> |
11.13.19: Askold Melnyczuk on reading and meeting Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. link>> |
11.06.19: NOVA focuses on the detectives and technology unraveling the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls. link>> |
11.04.19: At Slate, a new story from Cory Doctorow imagines the menace of ubiquitous surveillance, social algorithms, et al. link>> |
10.23.19: Gabi Reigh recommends ten coming-of-age novels from around the world. link>> |
10.22.19: Jacob Howland on Borges' mirror, the depredations of infinity, and the roots of our modern muddle. link>> |
02.01.19: Book collector Kurt Zimmerman recounts the experience of moving thousands of books to a new home. link>> |
01.31.19: Snow, and slush, and complicity, in three short poems by Chad Norman. link>> |
01.30.19: Nnedi Okorafor talks with CBC Radio about the empowering impact of seeing black people in stories which envision possible futures. link>> |
01.23.19: 'My earliest memory of Peru is a 1980 newspaper photo of dead dogs hanging from lamp posts in downtown Lima.' link>> |
12.20.18: Samuel Wronoski bends history and natural history to his purposes in three poems. link>> |
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New Books and
Literary News |
04.15.20: On this death-day of H.P. Lovecraft, we return, pilgrim-like, to the NecronomiCon. link>> |
11.15.19: The oldest surviving book known to have been owned by English speakers is a manuscript made in Africa. link>> |
11.14.19: Berfrois hits a milestone! 100 newsletter issues, and 10 years of publication. link>> |
11.11.19: The Levitt Indigenous Poetry Prize will celebrate Indigenous talent. link>> |
11.08.19: Tamir Hassan argues for an open, universal standard for document-editing. link>> |
11.07.19: Mike Glyer rounds-up the complaints about the business dealings of ChiZine. link>> |
11.05.19: Nine days left to crowd-fund Vital, a short fiction antho that explores "what's coming next in medicine and health." link>> |
11.04.19: A satirical poetry troupe in Myanmar has been sentenced to prison. link>> |
11.01.19: Conflict continues between Macmillan and public libraries over the proposed ebook lending embargo. link>> |
10.31.19: Rest in peace, Jordanian writer, journalist, and activist Amjad Nasser, 1955-2019. link>> |
10.25.19: For two decades, Stuart Kells has been hunting down the remnants of Shakespeare's personal library. link>> |
10.24.19: Preservationists rally to save Reading Gaol where Oscar Wilde was persecuted. link>> |
10.23.19: Police report that Kurdish poet Mohammed Omar Osman has died by suicide. link>> |
10.22.19: The naked page? Vermont writers strip down to raise money for library. link>> |
02.08.19: ASU library acquires Holocaust poetry, artist's miniature book collection. link>> |
02.06.19: Pakistani poet and columnist Arfan Shahood is combining travel writing with history and Urdu folklore. link>> |
02.05.19: A challenge to classics journals to accept 50% of submissions authors from marginalized groups. link>> |
01.30.19: Otto Penzler is teaming with Pegasus Books to launch Scarlet, an imprint for suspense aimed at female readers. link>> |
01.29.19: Announcing a free book of cli-fi, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson. link>> |
01.25.19: NYU has made available an archive of Freedom, Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham's radical Harlem newspaper. link>> |
01.24.19: Wattpad will use machine learning to help select stories for publication in its new book imprint. link>> |
01.23.19: The Times Record chats with Gary Lawless, owner of Gulf of Maine Books. link>> |
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