As I Lay Reading As I Lay Reading

William Faulkner makes Oprah's Book Club this summer.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / J.M. Tyree

No Exit Strategy No Exit Strategy

Two new books examine what went wrong in the planning and conduct of the war in Iraq.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff

Shoot the Piano Player Shoot the Piano Player

Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To the Wires Overhead To the Wires Overhead

This is the year
when the swallows did not come back

you have not noticed

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To Being Late To Being Late

Again again you are
the right time after all

not according to
however we planned it

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Margin To the Margin

Following the black
footprints the tracks
of words that have passed that way
before me I come
again and again to
your blank shore

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

Mother Nature’s Son Mother Nature’s Son

Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions and allegories of nature.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ross Benjamin

Prosaic Judgments Prosaic Judgments

Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Theater of Cruelty The Theater of Cruelty

The detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historical prison practices.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh

The Heart of the Matter The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene remains a compelling figure in this moment of moral bankruptcy.

Jun 23, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass