Saddened today to note the passing of Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013)—priest, sociologist, journalist, prolific critic, novelist, and philanthropist. Father Greeley (his preferred moniker) was a
Oh, Thomas Bernhard! Bringing the thunder, bringing the classism—an excerpt from “Playing Watten” (translated by Kenneth J. Northcott), from Three Novellas: We often maintain, to
A recent review from the New Yorker—and more about the book here. “The wings of the pterosaur take us to the Wright Brothers, the pinhole
From Josh Cook’s review of Recalculating by Charles Bernstein, in the May issue of Bookslut: With translations, imitations, and homages, and with poems of poetry’s
From the Introduction The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer by Lisa Downing: “Serial killers are so glamorized . . . as
We greet the spring with an annual rite, neither more nor less essential than the other invocations that usher in the season (woodpecker outside my
Before We Loved the Buddha by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. *** According to a famous Chinese legend, in 60 CE (or thereabout), the Emperor Ming
One of the taglines—the pithy paragraph-end to an initial piece of copy—for Dmitry Samarov’s Hack goes something like this: “And from behind the wheel of
Barbara J. King is having quite a week—at least in terms of traversing brave new (pop-cultural) frontiers for the scholarly pursuits of animal intelligence and
Last week the New York Times Book Review ran a review of three books about Chicago. The review generated an “epic backlash,” and got everyone