Recognizably 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.
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/Ben Lerner's arresting first novel sets a funhouse mirror before the author's own formative years as a poet, poseur, and pill-popper in Madrid.
Read MoreWalk, Swim, Grumble
/Olivia Laing's digressive natural history of the 42-mile-long River Ouse is filled with philosophical meditations, childhood memories, and of course the ghost of Virginia Woolf.
Read MoreMemo to a Colleague
/Is Marjorie Garber's defense of literary studies balm to the beleaguered English professor's soul? Not yet, anyway.
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