A Soldier’s Story A Soldier’s Story
In the annals of American politics Winning Modern Wars is an unusual book.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Frances FitzGerald
The Name of Love The Name of Love
In January 1948 Dutton brought out the third novel of a promising young writer named Gore Vidal. The publishing house was nervous.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Haslett
Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote
On the page, Patricia Highsmith could inspire a law-abiding citizen to become a willing accomplice to murder, at least within the realm of the imagination.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kera Bolonik
Memoirs of a Revolutionist Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Who can recall the late Stokely Carmichael's first name and not associate it with the two most incendiary words of the 1960s, Black Power?
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Norman Kelley
Full Moon Full Moon
Clouds curdle round it, crack open, let it through.
Radiance shades by cloudshapes; fat fruit
of incandescence; sphere of peeled silver. I wonder
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
Man Making the Bed Man Making the Bed
Psalm after psalm into a dead sea of silence: they invite
their own enormous, endangered day. Scalded, lord,
by sunlight and the lizards watching, licking dust,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
At Work At Work
On slow wings the marsh hawk is patrolling
possibility--soaring, sliding down almost to ground level,
twisting suddenly at something in the marsh hay or dune grass,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by ...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Wrigley
Visions of the Sublime Visions of the Sublime
One of the great benefits conferred by Modernism on our appreciation of traditional painting is that there is little inclination any longer to ascribe optical abnormalities to ...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
New York State of Mind New York State of Mind
After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the read...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Phillip Lopate