Thinking in Common
/The great critic and essayist Irving Howe laid claim to a great many decayed traditions - and then elevated them all to high art. A new collection of his prose presents some of his gems.
Read MoreI Think We’re Alone Now
/Two poetry volumes - one concerned with how to be ourselves, alone, inside, the other concerned with making multifacted connections with external reality - are reviewed in a gentle dialogue with each other.
Read MoreStop Their World Spinning
/Against a pervasive American sports culture, author Steve Allmond pits a devastating critique of the savage violence - and staggering toll in injuries and deaths - of football.
Read MoreTitle Menu: A list of great political books that doesn't include What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer
/Just in time for the November midterm elections, we do what doubters said couldn't be done: we present you with a list of ten great political books that doesn't include Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes.
Read MoreThe Attempt to See
/Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson returns to small-town Iowa in this new novel full of deceptive calms and clear mastery.
Read Morefrom At Will
/a poem
Read MoreMore Faith, Better Grounded
/A reissue of James Agee's letters to Father Flye give a picture of the writer's naked ambition, excoriating self-hatred, and unrefined genius. But it also raises the question: Do we remember Agee more for what he wrote or what his addictions prevented him from writing?
Read MoreAn Unfolding Elegy
/When sudden death claimed poet Jake Adam York at the age of 40, it cut short his life's work of commemorating all the martyrs of the American Civil Rights movement; Teow Lim Goh re-reads the man and his work.
Read MoreELECTION DAY
/a poem
Read MoreThe Book of Abraham
/Veteran historian Brookhiser takes a look at the formative influences on Abraham Lincoln - not so much his own father as the Founding Fathers.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Forgive your enemies but never forget their names”
/Felix Francis continues to artfully follow in his late father’s footsteps with his newest thriller, Dick Francis’s Damage. The Button Man, Mark Pryor’s fourth Hugo Marston novel, is a prequel that adds a fascinating dimension to the highly charismatic protagonist of this splendid series.
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