I thought my old employer might ask me to review for them, but the Los Angeles Review of Books beat them to it ... and I couldn't be happier. I had a chance to really stretch out in the LARB in a review of Barry Strauss' retelling of the greatest assassination of the Roman … Continue reading Chronicle of a death retold
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And Justice for all
So the awards were just given out by another literary group, the National Book Critics Circle, and one of the winners was poet Claudia Rankine. Check the web today and you'll find surprise in some corners .... why? Because award recognition and the work of a poet like Rankine don't always come together. Most writers … Continue reading And Justice for all
Endangered… and necessary: A talk with Scott Timberg
No, this post isn't about the extinction of the Dodo; it could be, but it isn't. Actually, it's about another species whose situation is bad, though not as bad as the Dodo's (at least not yet): the critics/writers/various members of the contemporary arts and culture world. One of the insights prompted by reading Scott Timberg's book Culture … Continue reading Endangered… and necessary: A talk with Scott Timberg
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