Fallout, Carry On
/Lance Olsen's page-turning experimental novel-in-stories mugs, flirts, ends the world, and dares the reader to make a rondel of intuitive leaps.
Read MoreThe Light in Their Eyes
/Thomas Lawrence was the rising young star painter of the politicians, soldiers, rakes, and mistresses of Regency London, but his work had a life and intelligence that transcended the trendy. A new book looks at a forgotten master.
Read MoreA Year with Short Novels: The Nihilism of Nathanael West
/His short novels are the 'ugly stepchildren' of 20th century fiction, and yet his admirers are legion; A Year with Short Novels takes a look at Nathanael West and his two best-known works.
Read MoreYoung Jew Telling Jokes
/Assimilation is the nightmare of Joshua Cohen's daring novel "Witz," and the book is therefore designed to be strange and prickly to the gentiles who try to read it.
Read MoreOf Form, E-Readers, and Thwarted Genius: End of a Year with Short Novels
/In our Internet-fueled new century, can the in-between genre of the short novel survive? Or have novellas - with their speed and feral intensity - finally come into their own? Our Year with Short Novels concludes.
Read MoreEtched in Carbon
/Tom McCarthy's new palimpsest of microscripts, C, attempts a new technocratic and poetical re-imagining of its protagonist's life story. What's at stake, and what's won?
Read MoreThe Lovable Abject
/The tyranny of "supersized" sculpture is dealt a blow by Charles LeDray's hand-crafted miniatures, on display now at the Whitney Museum
Read MoreSequins are not stars
/Kept between us, I enter my name /into the raffle /for a new one and a car to drive it around in.
Read MoreA Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance
/"I think about how the self might be simply a series of curatorial choices, that it’s fluid, that the poetic 'voice' is something to play with rather than solidify." -- a conversation with cover artist Anne Gorrick
Read MoreWhat is he doing?
/"A Glyn Maxwell poem encourages us towards an emotion or a point of view not by stating it, often not even by showing it, but by bringing us in stages to cooperate in doing the work of recreating it."
Read MoreLiterature is Dead, Long Live Literature
/Is the death of literature finally dead? If not, it's been dealt a healthy blow by Gregory Jusdanis' Fiction Agonistes, even it art does have to “justify itself in a way not necessary before.”
Read MoreThe Beginning of the End, the Battle at the End, and the End
/In 1941 Hitler had everything: all of Europe had fallen to his stormtroopers, and he could dispose of lone, defiant England at his leisure. Then he made a Napoleonic gamble: he invaded his one-time ally, Russia. Three new books deal with the Napoleonic results of that gamble.
Read MoreJanuary 2011 Issue
/from "After Usuyuki" by Anne Gorrick
Read MoreDebo Speaks!
/For most of the 20th century, the vivacious, controversial Mitford sisters captivated the imagination of the Western world. In a long-awaited memoir, Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last living Mitford sister, tells her story at last.
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