Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Philip Roth has been firmly ensconced in America’s literary pantheon [...]
Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
“Reader, you have in your hand a motley collection of [...]
This Old Watch
This old watch isn’t really that old, not in the [...]
Apuleius Translated
I’ve been looking at asses. More specifically, I have been [...]
Culled and Not Culled, the Poet Will Be There
I ask the reader to join me in an excursion [...]
Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters, Volumes I & II
Volume I: The Early Years (1940–1965) Volume II: The Quartet [...]
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
At the age of twenty-seven, Gideon Lewis-Kraus was at a [...]
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
For about a decade, Robin D. G. Kelley’s biographical blurbs [...]
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
For a time in the early 1990s it was hard [...]
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
The prolific, much-admired poet, essayist, novelist, and translator Fanny Howe [...]