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Leopardi, to the Moon

  • Heather Hartley
  • April 1, 2011
A concise and erudite presentation of and meditation on the complex and solitary figure of Leopardi, it is also an exploration of the major themes and forms of the poems…
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And Then Lapsed Ordinary

  • Dean Rader
  • March 30, 2011
I found myself intrigued by all of the energy surrounding what people seem to be calling a renewed energy in Heaney’s work.
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The Free World

  • Bezalel Stern
  • March 29, 2011
In David Bezmozgis’s first novel, the Krasnansky’s, a family of Soviet émigrés, wait in Italy for permission to move to North America, the Free World referenced in the book’s title.
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Night Soul and Other Stories

  • Regina Marler
  • March 28, 2011
The idiosyncrasy of James McElroy’s prose has been a stumbling block for his readers, but his new collection, Night Soul and Other Stories, feels true to their author, every turn…
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You Know Butterflies’ Semaphore Graces It

  • Sarah Sarai
  • March 25, 2011
Why We Make Gardens abounds with… lyricism and in doing so may serve as explanation. We make gardens and poems and art to achieve gentle charms of word and life.
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You May Say Fist, You May Say Teeth

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • March 23, 2011
The unsentimental and honest display of Levin’s attitudes towards loss – her own losses as well the ways that others grieve their lost loved ones – is both moving and…
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Other People We Married

  • Brachah Goykadosh
  • March 22, 2011
Emma Straub’s debut collection of stories, Other People We Married, is full of quirky, thoughtful, resonating characters and has earned her comparisons with Lorrie Moore.
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The Mother Who Stayed

  • Nina Schuyler
  • March 21, 2011
Laura Furman’s new concerto of stories, The Mother Who Stayed, ties its parts together in an illuminating and subtle fashion.
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The Icy Hand of Love

  • Alex Chambers
  • March 18, 2011
In Double Shadow, suffering puts its hypothermic hand on the backs of all living creatures. In that sense, it might help to think of it as a spiritual book, a…
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I Knocked On the Walls, In a Circle

  • Paul Corman-Roberts
  • March 16, 2011
The Chameleon Couch proves itself an expertly crafted book from a poet peaking in his awareness and execution of all the tangled dialectics that manifest in his art.
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The Tiger’s Wife

  • John Wilwol
  • March 14, 2011
John Wilwol reviews Tea Obreht’s new novel, The Tiger’s Wife, which vibrates with the low rumble of unanswered and unanswerable questions that keeps us up at night.
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Your Worst May Be My Best, or Vice Worse-A

  • Matthew Perry
  • March 11, 2011
Like the poems it contains, The Takeaway Bin as a whole is a response to something commonplace; one might even say it’s a book of copings with or responses to…
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