by bertbaby | May 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
Leslie Jamison unbridles the bonds that link one individual to another, using her own experiences as well as a raft of cultural observations to find that essential trait which separates the gentle from the sociopathic.
by bertbaby | May 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
May 21: The smash-hit musical Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959.
by bertbaby | May 20, 2014 | Book Reviews
Two young novelists on alligators, MFAs, and the dangers of confusing fiction with fact.
by bertbaby | 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.
by bertbaby | 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.
by bertbaby | 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.
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