Brief Moments Upon the Blank Page: Moyra Davey’s Index Cards
The collection enacts—even performs—its own coming into being.
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...moreBarbara Berman reviews work by Dunya Mikhail, Thomas Merton, and Robert Lax.
...moreEvery act of reading is inseparable from what the reader has encountered before.
...moreThere’s no such thing as too much of this kind of light, especially in dark times.
...moreBarbara Berman’s 2018 Poetry Shout-Out!
...moreFounder and publisher Lisa Pearson discusses Siglio Press.
...moreBlindness as a concept is central to Kawabata’s novel, where every character is blind to something.
...moreMarcia Douglas discusses her forthcoming novel, THE MARVELLOUS EQUATIONS OF THE DREAD.
...moreMelissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.
...more“All art is somehow a kind of witness, whether to beauty or to anything else.”
...moreIt’s the most wonderful time of the year! Barbara Berman offers gift recommendations for the poets on your holiday shopping list.
...moreUnlike clothing, which can disguise the state of the soul, a person’s eyes reveal the truth.
...moreVastness does not always mean an abyss.
...moreShe couldn’t remember the last time she’d been alone with herself. Maybe never. It was always her–with others, and in these others she was reflected and the others were reflected in her. Nothing was–was pure, she thought without understanding what she meant. Another newly released story by the dazzling Clarice Lispector, “Beauty and the Beast […]
...moreMuriel Spark and the perennial question: “Am I a woman or an intellectual monster?”
...moreExercises in Style has been one of the most beloved books in the New Directions catalog since they first published it in 1981.
...moreIn one of the stories in Roberto Bolaño’s new collection The Secret of Evil, the symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, whose arresting and beastly Jupiter and Seleme graces the American jacket of Bolaño’s 2666, is referenced by a man “present at a gathering of madmen.”
...moreHelen DeWitt’s satirical novel Lightning Rods turns the quotidian American workplace into a cloaked prostitution ring and makes us wonder if it isn’t already one.
...moreVictor Pelevin’s new novella, Hall of the Singing Caryatids, satirizes contemporary capitalism in a smart and fun critique of what we do for money and with money.
...moreAllen Ginsberg claimed that his reading voice was an imitation of the voice with which William Blake spoke to him in his visions and dreams. Once you hear Ginsberg read, you are stuck in his dream forever. Javier Marias, the prolific Spanish author who blends wit and private conspiracies in unparalleled ways, was on KCRW’s […]
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