Spring
At the heart of David Szalay’s exquisite yet maddening novel "Spring" is a love story. What’s exquisite is the writing. What’s maddening is its inconclusiveness. The... Read More
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Each year, Graywolf Press publishes the winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, and neither the publisher nor the Breadloaf Writers Conference (which administers the Prize)... Read More
Shann Ray’s debut story collection has already won the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize. “The sentences in this book,” writes contest judge Robert Boswell,... Read More
Melanie Rae Thon, award-winning author and professor at the University of Utah, writes about the desolate, the despairing, and the lost in her new collection, In This Light.... Read More
Civilization is the opposite of barbarism; however, it must be widespread and not exclusively for the educated or rich. It indicates not only material prosperity, with shared... Read More
America in the late 1950s and early 1960s wasn’t an easy place or time for a “misfit” to come of age. Margaret Marcus was an unpretty, unpopular, and very bright Jewish... Read More
It is as alien as one might suppose, Life On Mars, and yet there are familiarities—David Bowie, head cocked; Universal Studios, prolific as ever. In her third collection of... Read More
A title like "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition" sets expectations of broad strokes: one imagines an encyclopedic knowledge of humanity. To his immense credit, Dyer... Read More
“The empire of facts will have its say,” Mark Slouka says. “Although Octavio Paz may have been right when he suggested that Americans have always preferred to use reality... Read More
This story is like a mango: sweet, with a hard stone pit. “When you have lost…two beloved brothers on the same day, what are you? What word is there to say what you have... Read More
Gary Jackson’s poetry collection "Missing You, Metropolis" boldly takes readers where few poets have dared to tread: inside the world of comic books. Echoing the framed... Read More
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