". . . the most important philosophical divide in the world of foster care is between those who believe that “kids are better off with their parents and the state’s job is to provide and regulate security,” and those who think that “kids are better … [Read more]
Nathan Heller on “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock” by Matthew Quick
"Teenage gunmen may once have seemed a chilling aberration, but have become, hauntingly, as much a part of the American risk landscape as joy riding and misadventure at prom. Books like Quick’s are necessary, if only because novels, at their best, do … [Read more]
The Gifted Hammer: Poet as Simple Carpenter
A Review of Aimless Love by Billy Collins Billy Collins’ pen is a hammer that has been at work building a room for his poems in some pantheon or other. Sometimes that hammer has just the right surface for the nail it wants to hit. Other times, the … [Read more]
Robin Romm on “The Faraway Nearby” by Rebecca Solnit
"Shape as a preoccupation makes sense in a book about storytelling. Shapes and lines create order out of chaos, or at least highlight possible orderly paths through it. Solnit’s personal “story of sorts” brings together episodes from a difficult year … [Read more]
Steve Almond on “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” by Said Sayrafiezadeh
"His prose has an allegorical quality that is long on evocation and short on specifics. We have no idea why the war started, for example, or against whom it is being waged. We know only that it’s been great for business. The weather has gone haywire, … [Read more]
David Kirby on “Late Parade” by Adam Fitzgerald
. . "No, his is a third way, a poetry that is neither sealed off from human ears nor bent solely on pleasing them. In a word, his poems are drunk on both word and allusion and are therefore doubly tipsy. There are plenty of poets who are word-drunk … [Read more]
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