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...

Ivy Pochoda

by | Jul 31, 2013 | Book Reviews

Three books offering “strangulated rapture” and “hallucinatory poetry” to the author of Visitation Street.  

BNR Recommends: 10 Great International Noirs

by | Jul 31, 2013 | Book Reviews

For many of us, summer reading means the chance to experience exotic locales beyond those frequent-flier miles can reach– or to indulge in a safely imaginary excursion to the shadowy sides of human experience.  Why not combine the two?  Crime noir from...