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Where I Live

  • Barbara Berman
  • October 8, 2010
Maxine Kumin’s poems about the specifics of life on the farm with family, and relationships to fish, fowl, horse and vegetable matter, not to mention lovely liquids and unappealing solids,…
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Listen to This

  • Kevin Evers
  • October 7, 2010
Whether writing about Mozart or Björk, punk rock or opera, Alex Ross urges readers to search for the moments when the familiar becomes strange.
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Holding Company

  • Kate Angus
  • October 6, 2010
In Holding Company, his third collection of poems, Major Jackson achieves the difficult feat of writing a book that feels simultaneously both intensely personal and yet also archetypally American.
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The Cleverest Man in the World

  • Jessica Freeman-Slade
  • October 5, 2010
Donald Sturrock’s biography of Roald Dahl bridges the gap between the literary impresario and the troubled man.
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This Fantasy Is Most Disturbing

  • Salvatore Pane
  • October 4, 2010
In Brock Clarke’s Exley, a boy tries to reunite with his father, and to sort out the difference between fact and fiction.
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C

  • John Wilwol
  • October 1, 2010
The hero of Tom McCarthy’s new novel moves through a broken world in which technology is both a wonder and a threat.
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The Man Who Guarded the Bomb

  • Matt McGregor
  • September 30, 2010
Gregory Orfalea’s collection of linked stories demonstrates that conventions are there for a reason—and it’s often harder to follow the rules than to break them.
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When I Go Outdoors, Light Splits

  • Sean Singer
  • September 29, 2010
The poems in This Noisy Egg are always engaging and hold the reader’s attention, but they do not feel un-tethered or dangerous. Reading them, I had the sensation that there…
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Paper-thin People

  • Salvatore Pane
  • September 28, 2010
The winner of this year’s Drue Heinz prize writes flash  fiction that bursts with poetic imagery and focuses on lust and the death of beauty.
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Bound

  • Kenny Squires
  • September 27, 2010
In Antonya Nelson’s fourth novel, characters are tied to one another by love, by chance, by obligation—and by fear.
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Body Odor Can Be a Room

  • Joseph Goosey
  • September 22, 2010
In individual poems, small series of interconnected poems, and in the book as object, Mairéad Byrne has made in The Best Of (What’s Left Of) Heaven a map that covers…
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There Is No Other

  • Erin Almond
  • September 21, 2010
Jonathan Papernick’s short story collection revolves around the trials and tribulations of “an unlucky persecuted tribe.”
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