Essays
… of Whitman’s art: the self so large, so exemplary, so all-encompassing that it empties itself of all specific content … This despite the epic catalogues—full to bursting with bodies and place names and bustle and tools of the many … of the union and the firing on Fort Sumter. But he had also been an enthusiastic supporter of the War with Mexico …
Poetry
… three sets into the night, so she works on her rum and Diet-Coke and pages through the wind-swept Fake Book of her …
… named Lorena Hickok, and her reports became a classic commentary on the era of breadlines, soup kitchens, and … of the great Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s [$5.95]. Also available from Vintage is Theodore Rosengarten’s All … Jew Süss at the time of its initial publication in 1926. Now Carroll & Graf are offering a new edition of this …
… blindly mad, when he in fact was all too aware of his own complicated demons. Walser, who wrote in German, moved … environs he preferred. Then the troubles began. His father died in 1914. (His mother, whose depression and lack of … Echte. It took them more than ten years to decode the 526 pages of materials, yielding a startling omnibus work: …
Poetry
… stay in the right. We meet at the stop sign where the two points intersect. In the timeline of the atom bomb, … An early review of Whistler’s Nocturne series also describes it as wallpaper, suggesting there’s no … measure time is to play until you hear the coyotes and then come home, which is mostly, also, what lovers do. …
Criticism
… promotion for his last book, James sparked debate with his comments about the domination of white women as gatekeepers … to mean everything for publishing and marketing professionals and very little for actual readers, who tend to read … noted on a recent episode of the literary and queer studies podcast Food 4 Thot , “It’s sad when fantasy writers …