Online Edition: Winter 2005/2006
Interviews
A sex-worker turned novelist kisses and tells.
Fiction and academic texts conflate in this Canadian author's unique novels.
The Los Angeles River's greatest friend discusses the poet's role as activist.
Politics and laughs, of course.
Reviews
POETRY
Collected Poems
Kenneth Koch
If Kenneth Koch had an artistic credo it was play hard at poetry, and it shows in this nearly 800-page tome of posthumously collected poems.
Here, Bullet
Brian Turner
These war poems preserves the shock of this experience while maintaining its humanity, collapsing the headlines and battle plans to the felt life of the individual.
American Ghost Roses
Kevin Stein
Stein searches for "skewed beauty" borne of loss in this exceptional volume.
Language Is
John Phillips
Phillips's highly condensed verse calls attention to language as a thing always already removed from that which it points toward.
Political Cactus Poems
Jonathan Skinner
An ambitious contribution to the field of contemporary experimental ecopoetics, Skinner's poetry understands that traditional nature poetry will not get us closer to the natural world.
FICTION
Freddy and Fredericka
Mark Helprin
In his first novel in ten years, Helprin creates characters loosely based on Prince Charles and Princess Diana who attempt to conquer the United States for England.
Here is Where We Meet
John Berger
John Berger's latest displays the curiosity, originality, and daring that have made him one of the Western world's most engaging thinkers for nearly half a century.
Fledgling
Octavia Butler
Butler's Fledgling offers a new vision of the Other, one which is grounded as firmly in biology as it is in technological experimentation.
Fortification Resort
Lynn Crawford
Crawford draws from the deadpan mannerism of the French New Novelists in her newest collection of short stories, while maintaining a distinctly satirical edge.
NONFICTION
Like A Fiery Elephant
The Story of B.S. Johnson
Jonathan Coe
Distinguished novelist Jonathan Coe takes on the life of experimental writer B.S. Johnson, creating a spectacular work combining formal innovation with a humanistic portrayal of a compelling protagonist.
Theory's Empire
An Anthology of Dissent
edited by Patai, Daphne and Will H. Corral
Theory's Empire announces itself as a long awaited and much belated response to the repressive orthodoxy of Theory emblazoned with a capital T.
Innocent When You Dream
The Tom Waits Reader
Edited by Mac Montandon
The breadth and poetic power of Waits's musical vision is explored in these essays on the hip musical outsider.
Woody Guthrie Artworks
Edited by Steven Brower and Nora Guthrie
Woody Guthrie's visual art may have originated in the same place and time as the music that made him famous: Shorty Harris's drug store in Pampa, Texas, circa 1929.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Black Hole
Charles Burns
This graphic novel filled with freaks, violence, sex, drugs, and depravity, is also a literary novel filled with complexity, subtlety, and multi-layered symbolism.
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