OLM Favorites: Aid in the Labyrinth
/Randall Jarrell was suspicious of attempts to turn criticism into a science: he wrote as a reader, for other readers, with the work itself foremost in his mind.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: The Cute One Redux
/A sprawling new biography looks at both the quotidian day to day life and the pivotal music of the "cute" Beatle, Paul McCartney.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: The Madwoman and the Critic
/On Kate Zambreno’s Heroines and the crime of dismissive criticism in both Bookforum and The LA Review of Books.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: Learning How To Read-William Goldman's The Temple of Gold
/In Stephen Akey's personal essay, the sex and squalor of William Goldman's The Temple of Gold appeals to the thirteen-year-old he was when he first encountered it - and prompts an adult reassessment.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: This Drifty State of Being
/Two Idiots: Dostoevsky's classic and the new novel by Elif Batuman. What, if anything, do they have in common, and what do their differences say about each author's attitude toward fiction?
Read MoreOLM Favorites: Desperately Seeking Solzhenitsyn
/Every correspondent in Moscow wanted to be the first to find Solzhenitsyn after he won the Nobel Prize in 1970. Michael Johnson had that honor - but the great Russian writer wasn’t altogether pleased so see him.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: Prayers for the Stolen
/The plight of young girls in slavery-blighted Mexico is the crux of a harrowing novel by Jennifer Clement.
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