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February 2, 2012
Bad Review Bingo 0
by C. Max Magee
Print out your playing cards and start sifting through the comment sections of negative book reviews. It’s a new game called “bad review bingo.” (inspired in part by the frothy commenters to our own Janet Potter’s blistering review of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy.)
February 2, 2012
James Franco + n+1 0
by C. Max Magee
It’s time for another literary James Franco sighting. This time he’s popping up in the table of contents for the next issue of n+1.
February 2, 2012
Poet Szymborska Dies 0
by C. Max Magee
The Polish poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska, who contributed to samizdat magazines before the fall of the Iron Curtain, died yesterday. Among her more popular collections is View with a Grain of Sand.
February 2, 2012
Illicit Pleasures: On Edward St Aubyn’s At Last 1
by Ben Hamilton
No one I have read has managed to make the anticipation of a cocaine injection sound as cosy but also as infinitely depressing.
February 1, 2012
Two From The Atavist 0
by Nick Moran
The Atavist has been killing it lately. Last month, I was riveted by Joshuah Bearman’s outrageous (and completely true) story of one Brit’s attempt to bring a “Baghdad Country Club” to the city’s Green Zone. This month, “Mother, Stranger,” Cris Beam’s account of her abusive mother–a distant relative of William Faulkner–had me on the verge [...]
February 1, 2012
“It tasted like iron and foam was coming out of our mouths” 0
by Nick Moran
The VQR‘s last issue, “The Soviet Ghost,” was one of the most heart-wrenching reading experiences I’ve had in a long time. Now it’s got a series of video interviews with Chernobyl workers to seriously depress (and also greatly inform) you all over again.
