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Cultural Studies / Essays / Literature / Translation

January 2, 2010

Freud for All

Since yesterday, the works of Sigmund Freud have entered the public domain — I am not sure that the publishing world is in a feeding frenzy over here in Anglosaxonia, though in France, Libération...

Book Reviews / Books / Criticism / Essays / Independent Publishers / Intellectuals / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

December 26, 2009

Boxing Day 09 Favorite Books List

& the winner (aka my favorite favorite book of the year) is: Kenneth Irby THE INTENT ON Collected Poems, 1962- 2006 672 pages; hardcover; gorgeous Thorpe Feidt painting on cover; designed by Jonathan Greene;...

Cities / Literature / Memoir / New York

December 25, 2009

Robert Kelly on Brooklyn (2)

CITY AS PILGRIMAGE (continued…) East: Sunrise, the highway to the book I would set out, down the four steps cement steps of Mrs. Shevlin’s house where we rented our apartment, cross the little cement...

Brooklyn / Cities / Literature / Memoir / New York

December 24, 2009

Robert Kelly on Brooklyn (1)

CITY AS PILGRIMAGE by Robert Kelly You don’t live in a city. You live across it. Or athwart it, or through it. You live through a city, and the routes of...

Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

December 18, 2009

Just out: Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard

Just published by the University of California Press in the Poets for the Millennium series: Nicole Brossard Selections by Nicole Brossard Introduction by Jennifer Moxley Poets for the Millennium, 7 A Simpson Book in...

Literature / Poetry

December 13, 2009

Kenneth Irby: The Intent On

Kenneth Irby THE INTENT ON Collected Poems, 1962- 2006 672 pages; hardcover; gorgeous Thorpe Feidt painting on cover; excellently designed by Jonathan Greene; $40 from North Atlantic Books This is a book I have...

Literature

December 10, 2009

Herta Müller's Nobel Lecture

Here is the opening of Herta Müller — the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature —’s acceptance speech. You can read the whole lecture here. December 7, 2009 Every word knows something of a vicious...

Arab Culture / Book Reviews / Intellectuals / Literature / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetics / Poetry / West Bank

December 9, 2009

George Fragopoulos On Mahmoud Darwish

One of the better essays on the work of Mahmoud Darwish in this country was recently published in The Quarterly Conversation on-line magazine. I am reproducing a section of the essay below; you can...

European History / Literature

December 3, 2009

Stendhal's Manuscripts

If you have French or just like Stendhal or actually just want to see what an excellently made website offering superbly designed access to a major writer’s manuscript can look like, go and check...

Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature / Uncategorized

November 20, 2009

1000 Issues of the Quinzaine Littéraire

One of France’s longest living literary magazines, la Quinzaine Littéraire — founded in March 1966 ago by Maurice Nadeau — has published its 1000th issue recently. Check out the magazine’s site, which offers access...