The Hall of Uselessness

by | Aug 2, 2013 | Book Reviews

Writer and sinologist Simon Leys’ timely essay collection tackles pertinent issues in the era of globalization – namely, the future of Belgium, the Cambodian genocide, and the far-reaching impact of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Carver & Carruth

by | Aug 2, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 2: Raymond Carver died on this day in 1988, aged fifty. Although Carver’s stories are ranked far above his poems, he published a half-dozen collections of poetry and spent what he knew to be his last months on a new one. This last collection inspired...

Frost’s Road to Fame

by | Aug 1, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 1: Two of Robert Frost’s most famous poems, “The Road Not Taken” and “Birches,” were first published in The Atlantic on this day in 1915. Frost had recently returned to the U.S. after over two years in England, where his first two...