Poetry
… whatever has happened is written on the water of Babel. 269-270 By Wislawa Szymborska …
Criticism
… Business. By Stephen Bonsai. Doubleday, Doran ami Company. $3.00. Victory zvilhout Peace. By Roger Burlingame … speech, loosely put together with many digressions from the points under immediate discussion, but on the whole leaving … Hong Kong, Burma and Malaya, Indo-China, and the East Indies to the empires from which Japan took them.” In these …
Criticism
… Minister defiantly pronouncing the slaughter of U.S. soldiers even as they roll into Baghdad—which are startling. … Europe, by Pierre-Andr Taguieff. Ivan R. Dee, June 2004. $26 Taguieff, a French political scientist and essayist on … the mind-numbing repetitions, not only of his larger points, but also of the many individual examples that recur …
Criticism
… and Fiction,” a 2015 piece which worried that, when it comes to the endangered ecosystem, “fiction is languishing … ticking, as his brief chapters alternate among three principals. Now, roving third person is the perspective for most … has “mutated and devolved,” losing her sex organs: “our bodies could no longer manifest our basest desires nor our …
Fiction
… fiercely, as if to assure him of the fact. Later he would come to say good-night and linger another minute in the … could try to call the hardware store. A minute withered and died while she tried to calculate the difference between … to bare skin, slipped less and allowed her to hold a steadier pace. They walked a mile this way, the gap slowly …
Criticism
… Claudia Emerson's Impossible Bottle Claudia Emerson, who died in December 2014, had come to be known as a poet capable of revealing startling … in every pause.” But Emerson’s opening up of lines seems also a reflection of what a radical reorganization of self …