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WebThe book allegorizes silence, invisibility, and most especially, listening. The books of poetry and essays I responded to most seem to feature listening as an urgent …

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Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

WebShakespeare’s book, at over 550 pages, is exhaustive; it uncovers many personal details that Chatwin carefully hid. It recalls sexual adventures, feuds, and illness …

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Down and Dirty: Translations of Catullus

Webby J. Kates. Once upon a time in a state far, far away—Indiana—a gentleman named Norman Taylor waxed indignant. “I happened to come across one of the books sold in a …

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Physician in the Dark

WebPhysician in the Dark. by Neil Shepard. That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. —Hamlet, William Shakespeare Hall’s Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, autumn, …

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Somewhere in the Unknown World

WebWith the book Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir, Minnesota writer and activist Kao Kalia Yang, herself the daughter of refugees, …

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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria …

WebThe concept of empathy is central to You Must Change Your Life, both as an emerging art philosophy and as a subject for psychologists in the early twentieth century. …

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Sylvia Plath's Ninth Kingdom

WebIn “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” Plath began to experiment with the imagery of the Italian surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, whose paintings of dark trains, menacing …

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Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

WebWith evidence gathered by Professor Donat Gallagher from military archives and a newly surfaced memoir by Bob Laycock, Eade argues that Waugh has been …

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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956

WebThe highlight of this volume is the series of love letters Plath wrote to Hughes in October 1956, while she was living in Cambridge and he in Yorkshire. Plath regarded …

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Secret Histories: On Shirley Jackson

Webby Heather Clark. On June 27, 1948, Shirley Jackson published “The Lottery” in The New Yorker. Savagery unfolds slowly in this strange, spare story about a ritual …

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The Cactus League

WebThe Cactus League by Emily Nemens. reviewed by Brady Brickner-Wood. Emily Nemens believes in baseball. The editor of the Paris Review’s debut novel, The …

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The Octopus Museum

WebThe Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy. reviewed by Calista McRae. The title of The Octopus Museum, Brenda Shaughnessy’s moving fifth book, is explained …

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