Diary: Caryl Phillips on George Lamming
Journeys outward and inward
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Bite-sized book reviews by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers‘ in boxes. Editor Ann Kjellberg is a multi-decade veteran of The New York Review of Books and founder of the literary magazine LIttle Star
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Review: Jason Mott on a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations”
A reprise of our post on Marcus Aurelius from novelist Jason Mott
Notebook: (2) School Supplies Run Amok
A growing effort by parents, students, and teachers to reclaim the classroom
Notebook: (1) School Supplies Run Amok
Book Post Editor Ann Kjellberg on the Call to Curtail AI in School
Review: Stephanie deGooyer on Hobos
The rootless, unprotected seasonal workers who were America’s first climate migrants
Diary: Stephen Johnson on Anton Bruckner
He was nervous, unstable, oddly impulsive, plagued by obsessions, passionate but mysteriously self-thwarting; yet able to locate something else within himself
Review: Anakana Schofield on “John of John”
The novel of exile grows to become the novel of return
Diary, Barry Yourgrau, “Dust,” “Goya,” “List of Governments”
The new days are all about destruction
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Review: Anthony Domestico on James Ellroy
He pokes at the underbelly of American history, and a putrid stench wafts up.
Diary: Bashō, The Narrow Road of Oku
Both real journey and a passage through verse
Guest Notebook: Sarah Ruden, Criticism Then
Sounds like things were even worse for Vergil
Review: Michael Robbins on John Berger
Berger is faithful throughout his work to the idea that looking at the world can lead to changing it
Notebook: On Reviewing
I wrote this Notebook for “Viva la Book Review,” a nonprofit that supports book reviews in print, digital, and audio media.
Review: Andrew Hui on the Art of Color
Andrew Hui reviews Nabil Ali’s "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes"
Review: Jean McGarry on Camus
I had relished the notebooks Camus wrote in his twenties, read when I was just as young. Encountering a new, much-expanded edition now in a different world
Review: Sarah Ruden on Emily Brontë
The overriding reason to persist in trying to know the shadowy Emily is her singularity and impressiveness
Review: Joy Williams on Jón Kalman Stefánsson
A perfect little novel
Notebook: Alt Writing III
Critics’ Uncertainty Principle: Is the character of culture altered by being observed?
Notebook: Alt Writing II
Alt weeklies were natural critics of the media and establishments, natural workshops of a writer-driven style