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
Who’s Got Game? Who’s Got Game?
A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?
Mar 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Lipsyte
Just Looking Just Looking
Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Extreme Inequality Extreme Inequality
A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
Hard Times Hard Times
Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Ordinary People Ordinary People
Woody Holton's history of America's origins celebrates the contributions of the common people.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robin Einhorn