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Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud | Quarterly Conversation
quarterlyconversation.com | Jun 7, 2011
Arthur Rimbaud wrote the poems that were eventually published under the title Illuminations between the ages of seventeen and twenty. John Ashbery, whose has just translated the forty-two poems (plus one fragment) traditionally grouped under that title, is eighty-three. Rimbaud, when he wrote the

n+1: Epilogue to a Moment
nplusonemag.com | Aug 17, 2011
Cercas explains that he tried for two years to write the story of the events of 23 February as fiction, as an experimental version of The Three Musketeers, but that he foundered against the fact that the reality itself had become fictional: this was an event that everyone had listened to live on

Literary Review - Tim Tzouliadis on Spies by John Earl Haynes
www.literaryreview.co.uk | Jul 28, 2009
Book Review: "Revisionist history is often a bitter pill to swallow, especially when the consensus has permeated the very language of the debate. In the early 1950s, one crucial issue divided American public opinion, and continued to do so for decades."

New fiction: Petals of blood | The Economist
www.economist.com | Sep 21, 2010
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dec 23, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
bookforum.com | Dec 23, 2010
The Virginia Quarterly Review has just published its Fall 2010 issue, closing a painful chapter in the magazine’s history. The issue is dedicated to managing editor Kevin Morrissey, who committed suicide on July 30th. A subsequent investigation by the University of Virginia cleared editor Ted

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Incomplete Cain
lareviewofbooks.org | Jan 27, 2012
The Incomplete Cain BORIS DRALYUK on the grim hardness of a neglected noir master. Photograph of Paul Cain from back inside flap of Fast One’s first edition (1933) Photographer Unknown Paul Cain The...

The Millions : Shutting the Drawer: What Happens When a Book Doesn’t Sell?
www.themillions.com | Aug 24, 2011
In May, after my novel manuscript had been read and rejected by a healthy number of editors, my husband rewrote my author bio. It read as follows: Edan Lepucki was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1981. He currently lives in East Bushwick. As an American woman living in an uncool neighborhood in Los

Book review: 'Smothered in Hugs' by Dennis Cooper - latimes.com
www.latimes.com | Aug 5, 2010
Essays, interviews, feedback and obituaries from the literary provocateur.

What Makes A Great Critic? | The Awl
www.theawl.com | Aug 18, 2011
"The great artist is he who goes a step beyond the demand, and, by supplying works of a higher beauty and a higher interest than have yet been perceived, succeeds, after a brief struggle with its strangeness, in adding this fresh extension of sense to the heritage of the race."—George Bernard

LRB · Eliot Weinberger · ‘Damn right,’ I said
www.lrb.co.uk | Dec 27, 2010
The enormous black hole in the book is the Grand Puppetmaster himself, Dick Cheney, the man who was prime minister to Bush's figurehead president. In Decision Points, as in the Bush years, he is nearly always hiding in an undisclosed location.