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Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud | Quarterly Conversation
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
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
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."
dec 23, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
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
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?
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
Essays, interviews, feedback and obituaries from the literary provocateur.
What Makes A Great Critic? | The Awl
"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
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.
Invisible, By Paul Auster - Reviews, Books - The Independent
After a run of books with increasingly decrepit protagonists, Paul Auster's 13th novel returns to a highly recognisable
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