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To Live To Read To Live

TO LIVE TO READ TO LIVE Gimmickry attached to the world of belles-lettres has me chagrined: not the book itself,…

Introduction Fans of lengthy and complex novels often encounter the sentiment that shorter works are better because they get their…

Like every year, there’s much to dread about 2018, and to fight against, but, fortunately there’s much to look forward…

I read two hundred books this year. Crazy, I know. “Suffering” from segmented sleep certainly “helps,” as does “suffering” from…

Took out a mountain of books from the library this afternoon, in anticipation of National Translation Month.

Robert Lopez’s darkly comical collections and novels are full of bizarre, dissolute isolatos moving in and out of desultory relationships,…

I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. –from “Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa…