Los Angeles Review of Books17 hours agoHealing, Dangerous Wonders: On Sylvia Legris’s “Garden Physic”lareviewofbooks.org - By Paul J. PastorGive me truths; For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the Herbs and simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain, …
Los Angeles Review of Books19 hours ago“How to Navigate These War Zones We’re Living In”: A Conversation with Toya Wolfelareviewofbooks.org - Amy Danzer interviews Toya WolfeIT WAS THE summer of 1999 in Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, the largest housing project in the city — at one time, the largest in the country. An …
Los Angeles Review of Books1 day agoThe Allure of Orthodoxylareviewofbooks.org - Scott Burton interviews Alexander MaksikAT THE BEGINNING of the The Long Corner, Alexander Maksik’s fourth novel, we find the narrator, Sol, begrudgingly attending a New York City party …
Los Angeles Review of Books1 day agoGame, Set, Matchlareviewofbooks.org - By Jason ChristianIT SHOULD COME as no surprise to readers of Geoff Dyer that The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings isn’t actually about the Swiss tennis …
Los Angeles Review of BooksFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoSo Gaslit: On Caren Beilin’s “Revenge of the Scapegoat”lareviewofbooks.org - By Priscilla Posada“I HATED NOT being really read. […] Not even the title,” says Iris, the protagonist of Caren Beilin’s serious yet hilarious new novel, Revenge of the …
Los Angeles Review of Books2 days agoA Call to Wake Up: On Viktor Shklovsky’s “On the Theory of Prose”lareviewofbooks.org - By Jason DeYoungVIKTOR SHKLOVSKY’S On the Theory of Prose is a classic. Nearly a century old, it’s still avidly read and discussed in MFA circles, thanks to its …
