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February 28, 2010

Artifice and Discipline

February 28, 2010/ Kathleen Rooney

The personas and poetics of five new books by American women are examined in with an eye toward concealment and of revelation: Matthea Harvey, Katy Lederer, Brenda Shaugnessey, Robyn Schiff, and Karen Volkman.

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February 28, 2010/ Kathleen Rooney/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
literary criticism, March 2010, Poetry
February 28, 2010

The Man of Steel Revealed?

February 28, 2010/ Steve Donoghue

The most famous fictional creation this side of Tarzan has undergone innumerable changes over the years, and author Tom DeHaven tries to chart them all in his new book on the Man of Steel.

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February 28, 2010/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
March 2010, Steve Donoghue
February 28, 2010

Café Town

February 28, 2010/ Amy King

... I don’t mind the missing violin; /I am sweetly imbibing a foreign /fortitude: nothing terrible /will happen this hour or the previous... /

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February 28, 2010/ Amy King/
Poetry
March 2010, Poetry
February 28, 2010

Through the Keyhole

February 28, 2010/ Laura Kolbe

Mikhail Chekhov's Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir has at last been published in English in its entirety, and its flaws and omissions make it almost as revealing as one of Anton's own stories.

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February 28, 2010/ Laura Kolbe/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, March 2010
February 28, 2010

A Year with Short Novels: "There is a bridge...."

February 28, 2010/ Ingrid Norton

The jewel-like perfection of Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is the subject of Ingrid Norton's scrutiny in this latest installment of "The Year of Short Novels"

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February 28, 2010/ Ingrid Norton/
Features
A Year with Short Novels, fiction, Ingrid Norton, March 2010
February 28, 2010

It's a Mystery: "A violin is always female"

February 28, 2010/ Irma Heldman

There is not a false note in Paganini’s Ghost, Paul Adam’s superbly calibrated mystery that unfolds around the intrigue generated by a priceless instrument and its keepers.

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February 28, 2010/ Irma Heldman/
Features
Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, March 2010, mystery fiction
February 28, 2010

DeLillo and the Three Ps

February 28, 2010/ John G. Rodwan, Jr.

The nation's book critics naturally congregated when Don DeLillo's slim new book appeared. In the latest Open Letters Peer Review, John Rodwan supplies a scorecard for the players.

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February 28, 2010/ John G. Rodwan, Jr./
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Peer Review
fiction, literary criticism, March 2010
February 28, 2010

Like Dust, and Memories

February 28, 2010/ Finch Bronstein-Rasmussen

In mythology, Alcestis is the model wife, willing to give up her own life for her husband's. In Katharine Beutner's lyrical retelling, the truth is more complex.

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February 28, 2010/ Finch Bronstein-Rasmussen/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, March 2010
February 28, 2010

Soothing the Elites

February 28, 2010/ Laura Tanenbaum

Louis Menand has offered a calm and lucid response to the usual jeremiads about higher education--but is its lecture targeted to an ever-shrinking audience?

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February 28, 2010/ Laura Tanenbaum/
Monthly Cover
March 2010
February 28, 2010

In Shafer's Shadow

February 28, 2010/ Jessica Breiman

"My ideal poem would be able to be interpreted as both funny and sad and whatever else….” Shafer trailed off. “I think that’s a fairly accurate description of my work, and probably of myself too.”

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February 28, 2010/ Jessica Breiman/
Poetry
March 2010, Poetry
February 28, 2010

'You Talk Too Much...'

February 28, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo

Unlike its predecessor, Mass Effect 2 makes being a jerk a rewarding experience--Phillip A. Lobo explores the paradoxes of the Enlightenment, and the complicated morality of being bad.

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February 28, 2010/ Phillip A. Lobo/
Monthly Cover
March 2010, philip a lobo, Video game review
February 28, 2010

His Homelands

February 28, 2010/ Ascanio Tedeschi

He was a soldier, a lover, an exile, and a wanderer - he was Ugo Foscolo,and thanks to a new translation, readers will learn he was one thing more: a powerful poet.

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February 28, 2010/ Ascanio Tedeschi/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Book Review, literary criticism, March 2010, Poetry
February 28, 2010

Twilight of the Giants

February 28, 2010/ Tuc McFarland

The elephants of South Africa and the right whales of the North Atlantic are enormous, complex - and confronted with a growing human population. Two books estimate their chances.

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February 28, 2010/ Tuc McFarland/
Monthly Cover
Book Review, March 2010
February 28, 2010

Fools in Love

February 28, 2010/ Sam Sacks

Like an overheated love letter, André Aciman's florid novel novel of obsession, Eight White Nights, is very easy to mock--but is it perhaps just as candid and emotionally powerful? Sam Sacks tests it against the truth of experience.

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February 28, 2010/ Sam Sacks/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, March 2010, Sam Sacks
February 28, 2010

It’s Not All Gossip and Fangs

February 28, 2010/ Kristin Brower Walker

The latest novels by Francisco X. Stork and Benjamin Alire Saenz remind us that there's much, much more to teen fiction than vampire fads.

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February 28, 2010/ Kristin Brower Walker/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, March 2010
February 28, 2010

Facebook Fiction

February 28, 2010/ Janet Potter

Justin Taylor's Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever raises the age-old question about 'hot' new collections: can they possibly live up to their own billing? Janet Potter turns in a verdict.

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February 28, 2010/ Janet Potter/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, literary criticism, March 2010
February 28, 2010

Sunday in the Park with Dramaturgical Heueristics

February 28, 2010/ Bartolomeo Piccolomini

Giambattista Tiepolo spent a lifetime fulfilling contracts and covering walls with glowing celebrations of light and life. In Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso delves into those bright works.

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February 28, 2010/ Bartolomeo Piccolomini/
Monthly Cover
Book Review, March 2010
February 28, 2010

March 2010 Issue

February 28, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly

"snoverkill" by Jeffrey Eaton

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February 28, 2010/ Open Letters Monthly/
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