AltWeeklies Wire
Ultimately Unpalatablenew
Reynolds' resume is impressive -- but he is also a pompous blowhard and a serial ingrate.
Artvoice |
Jill Froebel |
04-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Jackson's Conclusions are Nothing Short of Astonishingnew
Half Life is a labyrinth of plot twists embedded with the history of twofer culture, tied together by Jackson's darkly humorous language play that mines the possibilities of campy twin culture.
Tags: Half Life, Shelley Jackson
'A Building With Eyes'new
DaZE's most insistent concern is its days: the daily news, the daily grind, the details of war and weird science that enter our lives on a daily basis.
Tags: DaZE, Matthew Cooperman
A Fascinating Explorationnew
In her sumptuous new collection of stories, Soueif details the lives of a series of Arab women as they traverse the cultural line that divides East from West.
Tags: Ahdaf Soueif, I Think of You
Permutated Pastsnew
Borzutzky appropriates history, various mythologies and dadaism into symbolic forms, slices of satirical drama, even contemporary parable.
Artvoice |
Forrest Roth |
02-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Confessional Letternew
In this well-researched novel where past and present, East and West, collide poignantly, Amis enables us to imagine a past so oppressive that the narrator cannot even refer to Stalin by name.
Tags: House of Meetings, Martin Amis
Between Despair and Possibilitynew
Byrne puts into dialogue the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- as experienced through the mediation of headlines and news stories.
Tags: An Educated Heart, Mairead Byrne
The Populist Poetnew
Pomerhn's third book is a guided tour through the crumbling American mindscape.
Neither Prescriptive nor Naivenew
Cairns crafts poems of faith in an age when readers are liable to greet the subject with cynicism.
Tags: Compass of Affection, Scott Cairns
Reasserting the Power of Creeley's Versenew
Why has a poet with such depth of feeling, technical virtuosity and an oft-imitated style elicited such a critical backlash? Most of it has nothing to do with the work itself.
