by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Academic and prosaic themes; language and unvoiced feelings—all blend inextricably and beautifully in the poems of Michael Davidson, which, by deconstructing themselves, make the practice of poetry fresh again.
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
In the genre of “books tallying mammoth heroic self-imposed feats” comes William B. Helmreich’s engaging account of how he logged 6,000 miles on foot through all the boroughs of NYC, accumulating many insights into the eternal, multi-ethnic...
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
An oral history of the lives of the cloistered sheds light on life behind the walls of an American monastery.
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Dreamers of the world to come, and their (not always accurate) visions of tomorrow.
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
The long-awaited unclassifiable collection of short pieces by Hilton Als finds the essayist riffing on a vast array of cultural tropes, all subsumed under his chosen title that even includes Truman Capote and Michael Jackson.
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