American Smoke

by | May 20, 2014 | Book Reviews

Iain Sinclair leaves behind his mythic England for American shores, in a literary travelogue following the crooked and tangled paths of the Beats, conjuring up the legacy of Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs with fresh eyes.

Plato at the Googleplex

by | May 20, 2014 | Book Reviews

Using Plato as her yardstick, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein measures the modern tendency to reduce all issues to scientific ones, and tries to assess how our newest technologies help or hinder the ancient ways of soul-searching.

All at Once

by | May 20, 2014 | Book Reviews

Since his 1969 debut Lies, C. K. Williams has won nearly every major poetry award extant.  Here he assembles vignettes that contour the places, people and dreams of his life in sensitive, deeply personal verse.