Internal Combustion Internal Combustion
Could Russell Banks be retooling himself as a fabulist?
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Holbrook Pierson
A Nurse of Enchantment A Nurse of Enchantment
Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
One Sun Roaring One Sun Roaring
The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
Who Are They Calling Elitist? Who Are They Calling Elitist?
Why do conservatives continue to feel oppressed by the "liberal elite"?
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Victim ‘Hood Victim ‘Hood
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
Mar 25, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Her Field Is Her Consciousness Her Field Is Her Consciousness
Celebrating Alice Notley, winner of the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Mar 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marie Ponsot
from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
Justice may appear in the
guise of a hard, devious mother
I want shoes for my baby
son my werewolf son
Mar 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alice Notley
from “The Islanders Remember That There Are No Women and No Men” from “The Islanders Remember That There Are No Women and No Men”
in the antediluvian island
in the primordial swamp
Hardwood was already my friend
Mar 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alice Notley
Poem Poem
Thank Gerard
Cascade: rain torrential rain
waterfalls down our stone facade.
Mar 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marie Ponsot