Romney After Florida
/After a brutal six months, Mitt Romney has won Florida and almost certainly the GOP nomination. Democrats and Republicans are rightly focused on his record, but they're each doing it for the wrong reasons.
Read MoreBook Review: Star Trek, The Rings of Time
/Captain Kirk finds himself stranded in the middle of space in the 21st century in this new Star Trek novel.
Read MoreBull Sessions: Journalism's Bloodsport Love Affair
/We live in an age of outrage, yet one of our most egregious 'blood sports' escapes censure from the press. Since long before Hemingway, writers have been calling bullfighting exotic instead of barbaric -- what are they thinking?
Read MoreA Fine Romance
/Is there more to romance fiction than perfect people meeting cute and living happily ever after? Sarah Wendell thinks so, but her arguments in defense of this most reviled of genres may themselves sell it short.
Read MoreWallace Stevens: A Spirit Storming
/Wallace Stevens, so long considered the driest and most cerebral of poets, can in fact touch the soul. It all hangs on the nature of poetry itself, what it is.
Read MoreThe Apparatchik
/For two terms, first as National Security Advisor and then as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was the most - often the only - likeable face of the George W. Bush administration. But does this quintessential team player break ranks in her new memoir?
Read MoreTrompe L’oeil
/Eli Gottlieb's novels are built on dissimulation: lies to be cruel, lies to be kind ... how does this formula hold in The Face Thief, and what is Gottlieb getting at?
Read MoreFalling for the Big Con
/This new novel has all the grit, violence, and hopelessness we expect of the noir sub-genre, but here it's infused with an almost philosophical edge.
Read MoreThe Drifter
/a poem
Read MoreCrowd Control to Major Tom
/Tom McCarthy's Derrida-inspired linguistic and narrative fixations are once again on full display in Men in Space, his first novel now reissued after the popularity of Remainder and C
Read MoreRecognizably Human: Larkin and the Sentimental
/Nobody would accuse the mature Larkin of being a greeting card poet, and yet a warm and even vulnerable sentimentality bubbles up in his verse, often when it's least expected.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “He’s the gray cardinal of the Kremlin”
/The Silent Oligarch is a smashing debut thriller that has Chris Morgan Jones assuming the le Carré mantle in his own very original way
Read More'I am Thy Man'
/He fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
Read MoreLooking for Laura
/She's a shadow, an absence, that haunts the letters, diaries, and novels of her famous half-sister Virginia Woolf. What can we really know about Laura Stephen?
Read MoreRadical Acceptance
/Ayad Akhtar's debut novel American Dervish describes joins a Pakistani-American boy's coming-of-age story with the exploration of a Muslim family's assimilation into picket-fenced suburbs. What traditions will be kept or compromised? And more importantly, how well does the author present his vision?
Read MoreFlexible and Ephemeral
/" Paper is a ubiquitous material but it also can be alarmingly elegant. It has religious (holy books, Joss paper) and socio-political (money, contracts), and quotidienne (butcher paper, toilet paper) connotations." -- a conversation with cover artist Megan Heeres
Read MoreA Quiz for Black History Month
/What better way to celebrate the month than with some Black History literary trivia!
Read MoreLast Month's Issue
/The forgotten Brontë, a new Iago, coterminous terrorists, Prince Albert in 5 volumes, how to listen to music online, DeLillo, Bostonia, brand new editor, Tagore Redux and plenty more ...
Read MoreFebruary 2012 Issue
/Megan Heeresdetail from "Home Alone"
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