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.

The Light Stuff The Light Stuff

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

Apr 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak

A View From the Bridge A View From the Bridge

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

Dec 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak

Dr. Fun 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...

Jan 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak

Ugly Beauty 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.

Jun 10, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak

Local Color Local Color

A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.

Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak

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