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Double Shadow by Carl Phillips

Double Shadow seems to find the poet at mid-breath, or in a time of transition where the voice may be in flux from previous work; but the watchful eye, and the careful hand that crafts these verses, is still ever-present.

Occupy Nation by Todd Gitlin

What hath the OWS movement wrought? Depends on who you ask. Naysayers, including most Republicans and Rupert Murdoch’s various media organs, will tell you that OWS created nothing but trouble, violence,…

The Truth about Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The title of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s most recent novel, The Truth About Marie, is an impish wink and a nudge to the reader. The plot, such as it is, involves a…

Madame X by Darcie Dennigan

Madame X pilots the idea that the line between reality and dream is not so much collapsible as it is meant to be collapsed.

Soul of a Whore and Purvis by Denis Johnson

As a writer, Denis Johnson has demonstrated a remarkable ability to polarize. On the one hand he has impressed some of the most prestigious awards committees in the United States.…

Watchword by Pura López Colomé

There is spiritual alchemy at work here, making one wish this piece, and many others, could be chanted by choruses taking turns, in both languages, with an audience not responding audibly between poems.

billy lynn's long halftime walk, ben fountain

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Anyone who aspires to write will find the story of Ben Fountain—and the story of how his first novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, came to be —both inspiring and heart-rending. Fountain began writing fiction at…

Sound by T.M. Wolf

Novelists rarely engage in typographic adventures. There are exceptions, some of impressive vintage. Laurence Sterne depicts death with a black page in Tristram Shandy. Late-twentieth-century Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (also…

Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton

It’s 1990. I’ve shut the door to my bedroom, like any self-respecting teenage girl, to listen to my new CD—the one I ordered for a penny from one of those…

Love, InshAllah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi

Love, InshAllah, a new collection of essays about romance, love, and sex by Muslim American women, proves that love and faith can live in the same house.

The Silhouettes, by Lily Ladewig

I’m fat. No matter where it stations itself then—against the sunset, unto the dawn, in the most awake and aware of lights at the gas station or drive-thru—my silhouette is…

No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer

Nina Schuyler
June 5, 2012

Nina Schuyler reviews No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer.
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