Criticism

Review: Appalachia

By Charles Wright.

  • James Longenbach

Review: On a Stair

By Ann Lauterbach.

  • Andrew Osborn

Review: Autobiography of Red

By Anne Carson.

  • Elizabeth Macklin

Review: Powell, Ramsdell, Truitt

Reading three first books of poems.

  • Bin Ramke

Microreviews

Eight new poetry collections. 

Governing Passion

The Governess, directed by Sandra Goldbacher.

  • Alan A. Stone

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The Big Picture

A review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E. O. Wilson.

  • H. Allen Orr

Review: Mann and Kafka

Doctor Faustus and The Castle.

  • Steve Dowden

Review: Life and Death

By Robert Creeley.

  • Forrest Gander

Review: Poems for the Millennium

From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude.

  • John Palattella

Review: Last Chance for Tarzan to Holler

By Thylias Moss.

  • Joel Brouwer

Review: For a Modest God

New and Selected Poems from Eric Ormsby.

  • David Yezzi

Microreviews: October/November 1998

Eight new poetry collections. 

Selling (Out) Nabokov

Lolita, directed by Adrian Lyne.

  • Alan A. Stone

Review: The Everlasting Story of Nory

By Nicholson Baker.

  • Ed Park

Review: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

Invitations to danger and salvation that makes the blues the blues.

  • Jonathan Gill

Review: Szymborska

Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997.

  • Frances Padorr Brent

Review: Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

Edited by Bonnie Costello.

  • Kay Ryan

Review: Smokes

By Susan Wheeler.

  • Stephanie Burt

Microreviews: Summer 1998

Seven new poetry collections. 

The Toad and the Butterfly

Character, directed by Mike van Diem.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Price of Selfhood

Vivian Gornick’s The End of the Novel of Love.

  • George Scialabba

Visions of the American Beserk

Two master novelists tackle baseball, urban blight, and the counterculture in postwar America.

  • Paul Gediman

High Windows and Four-Letter Words

Ssaying "fuck" and "bloody" is like contemplating the depth of the ocean.

  • Stephanie Burt
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