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Review: ‘My Unsentimental Education’ by Debra Monroe

May 9, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.

In the 1980s, linguistic anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath conducted a study on why people pick up and sustain a relationship with literature. Unsurprisingly, she found that the habit of reading...

"Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong" edited by Caroline Casey, Chris Fischbach and Sarah Schultz collects 14 essays on the cat video and its place in society.

Review: ‘Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong’ edited by Caroline Casey, Chris Fischbach and Sarah Schultz

May 9, 2019 at 5:41 p.m.

There's something perverse about making a traditional paper book about Internet ephemera: committing material that is readily available at the public's fingertips for free to ink and paper and a...

Darran Anderson's massive work "Imaginary Cities" delves idiosyncratically into the idea of place.

Review: ‘Imaginary Cities’ by Darran Anderson

May 9, 2019 at 5:34 p.m.

Before talking directly about Darran Anderson's grand and immersive work of creative nonfiction, "Imaginary Cities," it is worth saying a few words about his publisher, Influx Press. UK-based and independent,...

Review: ‘The Ghost Network’ by Catie Disabato

May 9, 2019 at 5:33 p.m.

The first question in the Reading Group Guide for Catie Disabato's quirky and high-concept debut novel "The Ghost Network" is: "How does the framing device of Cyrus Archer's reporting and...

As visual as it is verbal, Quintan Ana Wikswo's first novel, "The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far" wastes no part of the book experience.

Review: ‘The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far’ by Quintan Ana Wikswo

May 9, 2019 at 5:32 p.m.

Quintan Ana Wikswo's strange and haunting debut, "The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far" is less like a book of stories and more like a museum installation. Surrounded...

Review: ‘Her 37th Year, An Index’ by Suzanne Scanlon

May 9, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

On the final two pages of her lyrical and slim — but far from slight — semi-autobiographical novella, "Her 37th Year, An Index," Suzanne Scanlon acknowledges no fewer than 48...

Review: ‘The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic’ by Jessica Hopper

May 9, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

The show-business saying "everyone's a critic" came into common usage in the middle of the last century, but it's arguably never been more true than now. In our era of...

Review: ‘The Argonauts’ by Maggie Nelson

May 9, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

"The Argonauts" is Maggie Nelson's ninth book, and it's a crowded field, but it may be her best yet. Her faculty page at CalArts — where she is a professor...

Review: ‘The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony’ by Ladan Osman

May 9, 2019 at 5:20 p.m.

In his tongue-in-cheek manifesto "Personism," Frank O'Hara says "only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies." He was clearly kidding around, but in...

Sarah Blake's "Mr. West" is a poetry collection that attempts to offer an "unofficial" biography of Kanye West.

Review: ‘Mr. West’ by Sarah Blake

May 9, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

If you set out to write a poetry collection about Kanye West, someone who is himself arguably one of the most brilliant and influential poets of the 21st century so...

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