Melanie Rehak

Melanie Rehak is the author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. She is at work on a book about the pleasures and politics of feeding a family in the twenty-first century, to be published in 2009, and a book of poems called Autobiography: New York.

Books and Ideas April 22, 2008

The Light Stuff

The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?

Melanie Rehak
Poetry December 14, 2006

A View From the Bridge

Hart Crane, one of America's greatest poets, relished the extremes that eventually destroyed him.

Melanie Rehak
Cities January 4, 2006

Dr. Fun

Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence, and displayed his infectious awe of the universe in enchanting verse.

Melanie Rehak
Poetry June 10, 2004

Ugly Beauty

In the fall of 1958, the second book by a young British poet named Philip Larkin made it across the ocean and into the consciousness of American poetry.

Melanie Rehak
Fiction October 9, 2003

Local Color

A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.

Melanie Rehak
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Melanie Rehak

Books and Ideas April 22, 2008

The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?

Poetry December 14, 2006

Hart Crane, one of America's greatest poets, relished the extremes that eventually destroyed him.

Cities January 4, 2006

Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence, and displayed his infectious awe of the universe in enchanting verse.

Poetry June 10, 2004

In the fall of 1958, the second book by a young British poet named Philip Larkin made it across the ocean and into the consciousness of American poetry.

Fiction October 9, 2003

A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.

GET THE NATION IN YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING