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Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on S. J. Perelman

Perelman was the most purposeful of scavengers. His sentences make up an immense comic dictionary of usage, dense with the layers and eras of language…

Jul 24

Summer Reading with April Bernard! Elizabeth Bishop, An Invitation

Throughout August poet and critic April Bernard will, each Sunday afternoon, be considering three poems by Elizabeth Bishop with Book Post readers

Jul 23 •

Notebook: Fair Days

by Ann Kjellberg, editor How the nation’s thriving book fairs overcame skepticism about the existence of their public

Jul 21 •

Review: Anthony Domestico on Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Parade, doesn’t court intimacy but refuses it

Jul 17

Diary: Laura Marris, on Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab

As a child, I became fascinated with limulus and the way they carry other species, becoming itinerant microcosms of aquatic invertebrate life

Jul 14

Review: Glyn Maxwell on Anthony Hecht

To read his work in full is to see a faint, familiar image dissolve into a wraithlike presence

Jul 10

Summer Partner Bookseller: Northshire!

Mountains and springs: Where we find refuge, and the folks who bring books there

Jul 7 •

Review: Michael Robbins on a History of the Impossible

Is believing in levitation in 1500 the same thing as believing in it today?

Jul 3

June 2024

Diary: Sven Birkerts, Catalogue

The mysterious distance that lies between the unknowing writer at their desk and the precious artifact pursued by their future collector

Jun 30

Review: Lawrence Jackson on James McBride

Fiddler at the Dark Town Strutters’ Ball: The Ligaments of Fairy Tale

Jun 26

Notebook: Projections

by Ann Kjellberg, editor "Brats," the Brat Pack, fiction, and real life.

Jun 23

Review: Allen Callahan on “Who Really Wrote the Bible”

The Hebrew Bible's scribes were “a small close-knit community" buffetted on the margins of empire.

Jun 19

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