Worlds Undone
/The NYRB Classics reprints three seminal novels by the elusive author who wrote under the pen name Henry Green. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read MoreNot One to Eschew the Everyday
/From the tension between candor and formal presentation, Daniel Brown fashions the moments of discovery that comprise his new volume of poetry, What More?.
Read MoreAll Our Revels Ended
/For decades, famed academic and critic Harold Bloom has been tilting against the windmills of cultural fads and forgettings. But in his latest (and last?) book, he strikes a different pose.
Read MoreReading Poetry
/From Wallace Stevens to Seamus Heaney to Jorie Graham, the latest collection of critical pieces by Helen Vendler celebrates the worth of a wide array of writers. Jack Hanson reviews The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.
Read MoreRealism and Russia’s Fate
/The star translating team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (aided this time by Richard Nelson) translate Turgenev's A Month in the Country, with predictably disruptive results. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read MoreThe Fighter
/Norman Mailer was as fiery and mercurial a letter-writer as he was a novelist and journalist - and ten times as prolific. A big new volume collects the highlights of a lifetime in the post.
Read MoreThe Attempt to See
/Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson returns to small-town Iowa in this new novel full of deceptive calms and clear mastery.
Read MoreTerminal Lost and Found
/Martin Amis' new novel not only delves into the souls of a small group of characters involved in the running of concentration camp - it also interrogates the very nature of Holocaust fiction. Jack Hanson reads the latest from the author of Time's Arrow.
Read MoreA Kind of Humanity: Herzog at 50
/It's been half a century since the appearance of Saul Bellow's seminal novel Herzog - Jack Hanson revisits the work to see how Bellow's various machinations have held up over time.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Great "Minor" Works by Major Writers
/The great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.
Read MoreSleeping In
/Sam Harris, one of the "Four Horsemen" of the New Atheist movement, has written a book about how to live a spiritual life without religion. But does this anti-preacher book come off a bit preachy? Maybe even, awkwardly enough, dogmatic?
Read MorePassing Roncesvalles Again
/The new Scribner "Hemingway Library" edition of The Sun Also Rises offers annotations, rough drafts, and alternate line-edits - but how much light does it shed on its "near-perfect work of fiction"?
Read MoreWords at the Grave
/On Marx, the latest chip off the block of Alan Ryan's 2-volume On Politics, focuses on the founder of Marxism - but Ryan's a man in a hurry, and the devil is in the details.
Read MoreStrange Troubador
/Joseph Roth spent his life fighting the kind of lazy dangers that arise from the rot of empire, even as his life and his letters embodied so many of them.
Read MoreMoving-Away
/The Hemingway Library has given us a variorum edition of A Farewell to Arms with 39 alternate endings. But how might Hemingway himself have felt about the resulting collage?
Read MoreIn Lieu of a Drink
/Provocative public intellectual/muckraker Christopher Hitchens offers an enormous volume of collected essays and articles, probably his last.
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