Reviews
February 16, 2011
Sentencing Guidelines: Stanley Fish’s How to Write a Sentence 3
by Kelly Coyle
Much like what classical rhetoricians believed about eloquence, Fish argues you can teach students to write by teaching them to pour their ideas into the molds of well-formed sentences.
February 15, 2011
Donald Known and Donald Unknown 0
by John Wilwol
Rather than exploiting this obvious emotional peg, Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott take the high road. Donald is a smart, subtle story that provides new insight into a man at the center of it all.
February 14, 2011
Nerd 1.0: Patton Oswalt’s Zombie Spaceship Wasteland 3
by Janet Potter
If he’d been in a club getting sweat on by Fugazi, he never would have spent all those nights listening to R.E.M. and reading William Gibson, which gave him the sense of pride that comes from finding something you love and keeping it to yourself.
February 11, 2011
Battle Shrug of the Democracy Dad 6
by Michael Bourne
Amy Chua has produced a treatise on authoritarian vs. democratic political systems cleverly disguised as a parenting memoir.
February 8, 2011
Life Sentence: A Review of Mathias Énard’s Zone 5
by Garth Risk Hallberg
How to write about a one-sentence novel? How to write about the dead? The challenges aren’t as different as you’d think.
February 4, 2011
A Thousand Points of Light: Kevin Brockmeier’s The Illumination 3
by Jeff Price
Good fiction colors our understanding of modernity, the train roaring obliviously forward. It sparks in negative space, what gets left behind.
