Criticism
… B. Lee, By Robert W. Winston. New York: William Morrow and Company. $4.00. The American hero is strong rather than … these cultures have flowered patricians, some of whom have also been patriots. These patrician patriots have not … a better as well as more familiar picture of the great soldier than the heavy jawed if handsome lieutenant colonel of …
… the spokesman for a new generation of French cooks, has become the best-known cook in the world. The publication of … how to prepare it, not select a recipe and then seek ingredients which might not that day be at their best. A second … are inventive, tasty, excellent. The long introduction points out correctly that “Szechwanese food can be …
Interviews
… Puzzle Alexander Brock: I need some help with an upcoming issue of VQR. ChatGPT: Of course—happy to help. Who … aligned with concepts in psychology, climate studies, and speculative fiction. 2. The future produces … et cetera. And yet, despite being a fiction, it points to something real—me—that can be reached by …
… literature, but it has not yet, and probably never will, come into general use in this country, In order that the … Caesarian operations at the hands of pitiless radicals who have lost faith in ordinary poetic obstetrics. In … together the bare facts of Ggora’s life. No one had ever studied his works critically enough to separate what he really …
Essays
… Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees! O for the voices of animals! Thus he warbles, making room with his constant, … poet and our travel-guide is dead. To “effuse” himself in eddies, to dismantle the body, to die back into nature or the …
Criticism
… On the Recent Kathy Acker Craze By the time Kathy Acker died, in the autumn of 1997, I was nineteen and fully under … it felt so now , like the e-mails that could have been composed today instead of two decades before. I don’t even … throughout. He was Acker’s lover and mentor at many points. Kraus never once mentions her connection to him or …