Eowyn Ivey is back with ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’
In an 1850 essay on "Hawthorne and His Mosses," Herman Melville argues that no matter how much has already been written on a given topic, "The trillionth part has not...
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Heather Havrilesky’s ‘How to Be a Person’ delivers on the promise of its title
The title of Heather Havrilesky's "How to Be a Person in the World" is almost too cute — too self-consciously direct and simplistic. Like: do we really need a guide...
New translation introduces tense world of Marguerite Duras’ ‘Abahn Sabana David’
If you read only one book by the renowned French writer Marguerite Duras, then it should probably be her 1984 Prix Goncourt-winning autobiographical novel "The Lover," an unparalleled masterpiece of...
Ted Hughes’ ‘Crow’ provides backbone for ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’
Novels in which contemporary authors adapt and respond to beloved classics are common enough. Just look at the recent explosion of books expanding upon the lives and oeuvres of Jane...
Found photos, made-up memories at the heart of ‘Notes on Glaze’
Cabinet is a captivating quarterly arts-and-culture magazine that offers the print equivalent of a cabinet of curiosities. Each issue contains a collection of wonders and oddities ranging from regular columns...
Memoir ‘The Telling’ makes sense of Zoe Zolbrod’s childhood sexual abuse
The British writer and literary critic V.S. Pritchett is said to have remarked that when it comes to personal narrative, "It's all in the art. You get no credit for...
‘Oosh Boosh’ marks Shannon Burns’ delightful poetry debut
"Attention" as a form of currency — the idea that it's something that we can "pay" — has become so commonplace that it's easy to forget that we didn't always...
Review: ‘Notes On’ by Magalie Guerin
Fragmentary, a-chronological and equally interested in being a "printed object" as a book, per se, "Notes On" is the fascinating and frustrating literary debut of visual artist Magalie Guérin, published...
New book argues pretentiousness doesn’t always have negative connotation
The first thing to say about Dan Fox's "Pretentiousness: Why It Matters" is, how pretentious to write a book-length essay about pretentiousness! The second thing to say is, after reading...
Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel ‘Patience’ surprises from start to finish
The title of Daniel Clowes' latest book, "Patience," speaks to the abstract quality his fans have had to possess as they waited for the release of what his publisher calls...