The Ogre's Guests
/In his latest novel In Paradise Peter Matthiessen dramatizes a collision between the thoughtful philosophy of Zen and the worst of the 20th Century's horrors.
Read MoreSermons from the Ivory Tower
/A thoughtful exploration of what it means to teach the humanities would be a welcome intervention in the never-ending talk of crisis. Unfortunately, Why Teach? is not that book.
Read MoreThe Word Made Flesh
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Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Books that Might be Poetry
/Are these 10 books collections of "poetry"? Does it matter? "As poetry" is the best way to read these hybrid titles.
Read MoreMOONS OF GRIEF
/a poem
Read MoreLaylat-al-Qadr
/A kaleidoscopic new book explores one of history's sharpest paradoxes: the Age of Liberty was also the Age of Slavery
Read MoreTell Me Something I Don’t Know
/Two new books of poetry take different approaches to the written word and its conundrums. Can words express the truth, or are we asking too much of them?
Read More“There Is No Enjoyment in This Life”
/Iraqi lawyer and former exile Zaid al-Ali writes a bleak, sobering account of the state of his homeland in the post-"Mission Accomplished" era - but is there any reason for hope?
Read MoreNot Just Cutting Ribbons
/For the past 25 years, the Irish Presidency has been a wonder to behold: a place where passionate eccentrics can embody a complicated country.
Read MoreLove in a Cold Climate
/Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel is set in the frozen land of Nord, but its lush storytelling influences come from such legendary places as Mount Olympus and Mount Sinai
Read MoreIn the Land of the Free Brain
/"Your field is the mind, mine is the brain - will the twain ever meet?" Master novelist E. L. Doctorow's latest deals with the traumas of duality.
Read MoreIF IT’S THE LAST THING YOU DO
/a poem
Read MoreDoubleplusungood
/Putin's Soviet predecessors were masters of doublespeak. As Ukraine suffers again, it's clear that their descendents are now in charge.
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