David Lee Rubin

Shielding Her Modesty and Other Stories, by Sita Bhaskar. Frog Books, February 2006. $10 paper A native of India and longtime resident in the US, Sita Bhaskar focuses on the vexed interface between two cultures. Her stories are readable as transpa [...]

Cultural (dis)Connections: Memoirs of a Surrealist Scholar, by Renée [Riese] Hubert. Black Apollo Press. March 2006. $21. Renée Hubert's friend and colleague Marjorie Perloff seems to have started it all: her Vienna Paradox (New Directions, 2004) [...]

A New History of French Literature. Edited by Denis Hollier. Harvard. $49.95. This 1150-page volume sets the reader no easy task: to identify its genre, to isolate its successes from its failures, and to determine its usefulness to the numerous, a [...]

The New Oxford Book of American Verse. Chosen and Edited by Richard Ellman. Oxford. $17.50. A'alid anthology is a pattern of resolved stresses: it delicately balances coherent editorial vision against the irreducible realities of the material itsel [...]

The Poet and the King. By Marc Fumaroli. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Notre Dame. $29.95. Why have generations of French students (and foreign students of French) dutifully memorized and explicated a handful of poems by Jean de La Fontaine? I [...]