Criticism
… hundred thousand copies of their books. But Mark Strand embodies a different sort of “celebrity.” After all, how many … but rarely any poems. His Selected Poems of 1980 comprises Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Reasons for … stages of a poetic career, we might apply it here. Donoghue points to Darker as the transitional book; Kirby, to The …
Criticism
… be deemed living or otherwise?)—but he does raise some good points. Besides the enduring influence of the three … interesting scenario for what may be the future utility and commercial potential of short stories: The new, post-print … The Question of Bruno ), Jhumpa Lahiri ( Interpreter of Maladies ), Uwem Akpan ( Say You’re One of Them ), and Daniyal …
Criticism
… Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 1826—1829 . This account includes an eyewitness report of what … Gerald F. Linderman’s The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience in World War II [$15.95]; and Eric T. … Washington’s development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon [$l6.95]. Princeton has a new …
Fiction
… he lived apart and visited only once in two weeks, always coming at midnight on Fridays and disappearing at dawn on … the morning and took him away. Many people thought he had died and were shocked to see him back walking the road a … which his blood would empty to the ground. But he was also a self-destructing fungus who needed no one to kill …
Poetry
… mountains, between the knuckles of the mountains. They will come home with fog on the hoods of their trucks, will gut … the sound of a wet branch breaking under foot. And the sun coming up, pushing its affection into the fog, nothing for …
Criticism
… Killing Ourselves Softly Complicity in Modern America At a writing conference several … of a Tuesday-night meal in his house, a meal swamped in Daddies Brown Sauce, which “glugs from the bottle, smothering … chapter to songs about grown men lusting after children. He points out the obvious—the Police’s massive hit “Don’t Stand …