Sep 24, 2018
The Critic’s Notebook
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On literary audacity, Grooms’s “Handiwork,” keyboard conversations & more from the world of culture.
On literary audacity, Grooms’s “Handiwork,” keyboard conversations & more from the world of culture.
On the late U.S. Poet Laureate and essayist.
On grilling with Homer, liberalism, literature on the Wilder side & more.
On the literary accomplishments of Denis Johnson.
On Commotion of the Birds by John Ashbery, Falling Awake by Alice Oswald, Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova, Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler & Fast by Jorie Graham.
Spanish masterpieces visit the Prado, Strauss and Verdi in the Met’s late season, & more from the world of culture.
On memory & pain in the works of the American poet.
On Still Life with Feeding Snake, a new collection of poems by John Burnside.