A Triumph of Compassion, Potent Perfection and Unforgettable Stories
Leave it to Lynn Levin to publish an enormous collection of short stories that seemingly takes five minutes to read. […]
Right This Way into a Thorny, Jungle-Viney Tangle of Human Dealings
Ely Cutter, the central figure of Miriam N. Kotzin’s often hilarious suburban dramedy, Right This Way, tells us that he […]
An Open-Hearted Master Class on the Sonnet
“Over the past decade,” writes Jeanne Murray Walker in the preface to her collection Pilgrim, You Find the Path by […]
Walt Whitman’s Affirmative Power
At one point in What Is the Grass, Mark Doty asks, “How would you ever understand the places to which […]
The Major Virtues of Lynn Levin’s New Poetry Collection
The major virtue of Lynn Levin’s The Minor Virtues is that you read it, cover to cover, with a smile. Not that poetry […]
A Masterful Encounter with a Great Mind and Greater Suffering
The beauty and tragedy of Alan Turing … the brilliance and difference of his mind and spirit, right from childhood […]
Delightfully Perplexed and Transfixed by The Sacramento of Desire
Sacramento of Desire invites us to hang out as Bloch weaves—and to get woven in ourselves.
Clever and Vigorous Our Age of Anxiety Leads to Many Pleasures
Clever, vigorous, Our Age of Anxiety, Henry Israeli’s latest collection, won the august White Pine Poetry Prize last year. Perhaps […]