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Notebook: The Writer of the Future
by Ann Kjellberg, editor
Ann Kjellberg
Aug 25, 2019
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Diary: A Letter to Robinson Crusoe, from Jamaica Kincaid
Dear Mr. Crusoe: Please stay home. There’s no need for this ruse of going on a trading journey, in which more often than not the goods you are trading…
Ann Kjellberg
Jun 22, 2019
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Review: Padgett Powell on Donald Barthelme
“When I tried to read Donald Barthelme, anticipating his arrival as a teacher in the fledgling writing program at the University of Houston in 1981…
Oct 26, 2022
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Notebook: On the Way to the Forum
by Ann Kjellberg, editor One of the last freestanding book supplements, Bookforum, was closed this week. With its sense of play, gritty glamour, and…
Dec 17, 2022
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Diary: Wendell Berry, The Writer Going Home
I have pondered a great deal over a conversation I took part in a number of years ago in one of the offices of New York University. I had lived away…
Ann Kjellberg
Nov 8, 2019
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Notebook: 1. Isn’t it romantic?
by Ann Kjellberg, editor The big boys of publishing think they know what readers want, but the avid readers of romance have for generations been turning…
Aug 30, 2022
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Review: Michael Idov on John le Carré
“I am distressed to see myself described as ‘the greatest spy novelist of the ‘Cold War era’... it puts me in the past,” said le Carré. One doubts that…
Feb 7
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Review: Karim Tiro on “Plymouth Colony,” from Library of America
For reasons of both symbol and substance, foundings matter. Because the past is complex and its interpreters fallible, we need to keep returning to the…
Jan 3
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Gary Snyder
To drift, to take whatever comes, is a poetic and spiritual discipline that 92-year-old poet Gary Snyder has mastered. He hikes and chants, bakes bread…
Aug 16, 2022
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Review: Zoë Heller on Jean Rhys
It has seemed difficult for critics to separate novelist Jean Rhys’s artistic achievement from moral judgments of her mostly wretched life, plagued by…
Aug 2, 2022
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Review: Joy Williams on “The Uninhabitable Earth”
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a swift, abrasive, seemingly merciless book about the horrors that await us in our very near…
Ann Kjellberg
Mar 17, 2019
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Review: Michael Robbins on Allen Ginsberg
from Michael Robbins There is a photograph of a classroom at the Virginia Military Institute: The cadets sit in a row, all crew cuts and pressed gray…
Ann Kjellberg
Aug 1, 2018
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