Recent Articles
March 18, 2010
Book Cover Contests 0
by C. Max Magee
Venus Febriculosa, currently judging entries for its Name of the Rose book-cover design contest, has opened up another contest, this one to design a “cover” for Eugenio Montale’s poem, “The Eel.”
March 18, 2010
Literary Threads 0
by C. Max Magee
Literary-minded t-shirt purveyor Kafkacotton has a new t-shirt out. This one is a clever nod to Kerouac’s On the Road.
March 18, 2010
From the Newsstand 0
by C. Max Magee
This week has brought new issues of The Quarterly Conversation (including considerations of Herta Müller, Per Petterson, and Jonathan Swift); Lapham’s Quarterly (The Arts & Letters issue, featuring Salman Rushdie); and Triple Canopy (”Hue and Cry”)
March 18, 2010
Traveling By Faith: Thoughts on Being an Iranian American Writer 4
by Elizabeth Eslami
A writer is like a goose inside a cloud. You fly by moving your fingers across a keyboard, hoping to write your way out of confusion and into something that makes sense to you and others.
March 17, 2010
The Verdict 0
by Editor
Max’s verdict in the opening round of The Morning News Tournament of Books has been posted. Which book did he pick, Gate at the Stairs or The Book of Night Women? Hop over to TMN to find out. And don’t miss the match commentary, which has some great additional discussion of both [...]
March 17, 2010
The Edge, Too Has Its Edge: Reading Uwe Johnson in New York 1
by Fridolin Schley
Uwe Johnson never quite knew what to do with the self-satisfied authority of superlatives. He was interested in the inconclusive, the ambiguous, and preferred observing things from the edge.
