Category: Book Review

The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm

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The True-Life Confessions of the Poet in Love

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The Nature of Not Knowing

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Personal, Private, Public

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Sin-Eaters and Other Characters

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Isherwood Overwritten

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“Poor Eddy”: A New Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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Byron’s Don Juan

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The Thrill of a Brand-New Book

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Inheritance

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Poor Carlyle

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Samuel Adams, Propagandist

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Auden’s Way

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Journaling the Plague Years

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“To be alive, is power”: Emily Dickinson’s Letters

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Flanagan’s Tasmania

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“One Day It Was Just No Longer There”

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Too Much Dazzle

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Bright Medusas

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Achilles Hath the Mighty Hector Slain

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Lord Byron—Seven Takes

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Harvest and Reflection

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Life of a Laureate

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The Mirror of Poetry

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The Winter’s Tale? A Life of Anthony Hecht

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The Example of Seamus Heaney

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Artifice and Artistry

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On Richard Ford

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The Summer’s Best Fiction, Hands Down

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The Lessons of 1848

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Kafka Agonistes

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Endless, Right? Endless? Write

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Essential Art

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Dryden’s Correspondence

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“Such hap as I am happed in”

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Goofy, Like All Genuine Poets

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Wilson Confesses

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“And I a Dot”

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Poetry in a Time of Climate Change

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The Eros of Shirley Hazzard

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Some Women

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The Birth of the Self

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The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost

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Ten Crushes

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Richard Wilbur’s Translations of Molière

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Audubon’s Predatory Eye

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Where All the Ladders Start

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Tocqueville’s Politics in Theory and Practice

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On Ian McEwan

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Two Shy of a Baker’s Dozen

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