Saturday, October 31, 2009

Reading Rat - October 2009

Articles, Essays, Reviews

'Hitler Considered Himself an Artistic Genius', Spiegel interviews Birgit Schwarz, August 21, 2009 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Unhappy Together: The Wittgenstein Family Feud, by Evelyn Toynton, Harper's, review of 'The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at Wa', by Alexander Waugh, Review-a-Day, August 21, 2009 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Haunting Dickens, by Bob Hussey, Rain Taxi Review of Books, review of 'Drood', by Dan Simmons, at Review-a-Day, August 24, 2009

Pynchon Lights Up, by Laura Miller, Review-a-Day, August 26, 2009 , review of 'Inherent Vice', by Thomas Pynchon

A Declaration of Inconclusiveness, by Thomas Lipscomb, The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2009, review of 'In Defense of Thomas Jefferson', by William G. Hyland Jr. (via Arts & Letters Daily)

In the Theater of Isak Dinesen, by Joanna Scott, The Nation, August 31, 2009 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Crisis and Hope: Theirs and ours, by Noam Chomsky, Boston Review, September/October 2009 (via Arts & Letters Daily) Shorter notice, by Callie Siskel, The New Criterion, September 2009, review of 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor', by Brad Gooch

What They See in Van Gogh’s Ear, by Ann Landi, ArtNews, September 2009 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

In the Theater of Isak Dinesen, by Joanna Scott, The Nation, review of 'Seven Gothic Tales', by Isak Dinesen, Review-a-Day, September 1, 2009

Not a one-trick pony, The Economist, September 3, 2009, review of 'Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies', by John Carey

My Sister, My Love , by John Leonard, Review-a-Day, September 4, 2009, review of 'My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (P.S.)', by Joyce Carol Oates

Their Love is Alive, by Louisa Thomas, Newsweek, September 14, 2009

A Music of Austerity, by James Longenbach, The Nation, Review-a-Day, September 8, 2009, 'Selected Poems', by Wallace Stevens

An extravagant imagination, The Economist, September 10, 2009, review of 'An unfathomable mystery: Charles Dickens, by Michael Slater

Aracataca and Sucre, by William Deresiewicz, The Nation, Review-a-Day, September 15, 2009, review of 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life', by Gerald Martin

Three Poems: The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad; Evening Without Angels; Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself; by Wallace Stevens, Poetry Daily, September 15, 2009

from Introduction , by John N. Serio, to to 'Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems', edited by John N. Serio, Poetry Daily, September 15, 2009

The Holy Grail of the Unconscious, by Sara Corbett, The New York Times, September 16, 2009, on 'Liber Novus' or The Red Book, by C. G. Jung

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