book review
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Wreck and Order by Hannah Tennant-Moore
Genevieve Hudson reviews Wreck and Order by Hannah Tennant-Moore today in Rumpus Books.
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An Urban Sort of Loneliness
The Lonely City bristles with heart-piercing wisdom. Loneliness, according to Laing, feels “like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.” Later, she admits that at one point during her own hermetic existence in New York, “I felt…
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The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Zack Hatfield reviews The Lonely City by Olivia Laing today in Rumpus Books.
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Gotta Go Gotta Flow by Patricia Smith and Michael Abramson
Alicia Swiz reviews Gotta Go Gotta Flow by Patricia Smith and Michael Abramson.
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Tender Recollections
What, indeed, but ungovernable love? Such youthful sensations as the longing to be known wholly and exclusively by another McKeon remembers and tenderly records. Over at the New York Times, Christine Schutt reviews Belinda McKeon’s latest novel, Tender, a story…
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Helle Helle’s Brilliant Brilliant Novel
So I re-read the opening, then the end once more. I looked at the cover. I turned it over to contemplate what’s already been said about it. I set the book down on the bench next to me and smiled.…
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Wilberforce by H.S. Cross and H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Heather Partington analyzes two very different books published in 2015 that examine the effects of grief and of all-boys British boarding schools.
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Reviewing the Literary Review
The Chronicle of Higher Education describes the Los Angeles Review of Book‘s new model for the literary review: LARB beckons a new model of a literary review, not tied to a newspaper or based in a university but creating its…
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
Rien Fertel reviews Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell today in Rumpus Books.
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Confluence by Sandra Marchetti
Michelle Donahue reviews Sandra Marchetti’s Confluence today in Rumpus Poetry.
