Criticism

My Brother’s Keeper

Shower, directed by Yang Zhang.

Alan A. Stone

The Sound of Philosophy

Milton Babbitt and John Cage.

Dmitri Tymoczko

The Fresh Prince

Michael Almereyda's high-tech Hamlet is–surprise!–a serious interpretation of Shakespeare.

Alan A. Stone

Hot on the Trail

Review: Brian McGrory and Toby Olson.

Roger Boylan

Review: Plowing the Dark

By Richard Powers.

Tom Bissell

Review: What She Saw . . .

By Lucinda Rosenfeld.

Jill Eisenstadt

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Review: Louisa

By Simone Zelitch.

Leora Bersohn

Review: What Are You Like?

By Anne Enright.

Robert Karron

Review: Glory Goes and Gets Some

By Emily Carter.

Don Hymans

Business and Democracy

Paul Buhle’s Taking Care of Business and Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle’s Democracy is Power

J. W. Mason

Allusive and Ambiguous

Christina Hume: Musca Domestica; Tessa Rumsey: Assembling the Shepherd

Catherine Daly

Reading Guillevic

Carnac and Living in Poetry.

James Sallis

Review: The Tablets

By Armand Schwerner.

Andrew Zawacki

Prose Microreviews: October/November 2000

Mike Davis and more.

Microreviews: October/November 2000

Thirteen new collections of poetry.

Restless Souls

The novels of Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua create their own diaspora

Ross Feld

The Naked and the Dead

Review: Tom Drury and Stephen Dobyns.

Roger Boylan

Tunnel Rats

By H. Lee Barnes and John Mort.

Jerome Gold

Review: Vertigo

By W. G. Sebald.

Joyce Hackett

Review: Pastoralia

By George Saunders.

Stewart O’Nan

Review: In My Other Life

By Joan Silber.

Jennifer Howard

Review: That Sweetest Wine

By Robert Cabot.

Bill Marx

Review: Enola Gay

By Mark Levine.

Stephanie Burt

Reading Rilke

Reflections on the Problems of Translation.

Nicole Krauss

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