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Readers respond to Matthew Zapruder’s take on poetry, question critics’ understanding of their assignments and more.
Karin Roffman’s “The Songs We Know Best” is the biography of a shy boy who overcame a hostile culture to become one of the great poets of his age.
Dylan Krieger’s “Giving Godhead” weaves the religious with the obscene. It may be the best collection of poetry you’ll see this year.
The librarian of Congress, who wrote the foreword to “The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures,” likes to read about the nature of things, most recently, books on mahogany and the history of redheads.
In this short-story collection by Samantha Hunt, dreamlike images operate in service to feminist themes and earthbound ideas.
In “Fast,” the poet Jorie Graham uses her own treatment for cancer as a way to explore the environmental and political crises of 21st-century life.
Two new collections delve into the challenging subject of modern combat and its impacts.
A court ruling deals a blow to KinderGuides, which publishes children’s books based on classics like “On the Road” and “The Old Man and the Sea.”
Annotated manuscripts by Billy Graham, Mary Jo Bang, Marie Howe and more show the vision and revisions of poetry in progress.
“The Best Minds of My Generation” compiles two decades’ worth of Allen Ginsberg’s lectures about his contemporaries.
The new novel by the author of “The Leftovers” features a 46-year-old woman hooked on pornography and her college-age son navigating campus gender politics.
A reader who loved “A Suitable Boy” and “The Forsyte Saga” seeks more big fat novels with family trees.
One writing teacher advises, Throw all drafts away! Another says, Save everything. Where’s the line between clutter and artifact?
In “Conscience of a Conservative,” Jeff Flake of Arizona crosses a rhetorical Rubicon to excoriate the president — and the lawmakers who support him.
Two new anthologies, “The Golden Shovel Anthology” and “Revise the Psalm,” gather poems and other writings inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks’ work.
A new book matches the events of Charlotte Brontë’s life with those of her heroine Jane Eyre.
Cree LeFavour talks about her new memoir, and Andrew Sean Greer discusses his new novel, “Less.”
The characters in Olivia Clare’s “Disasters in the First World” are often unstable, possibly even deranged.
Ruth, the protagonist of Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin,’ most definitely does not have it all figured out.
Three novels show that summer escapes, whether to seaside cottages or the great cities of Europe, rarely avoid the turmoil their characters have fled.
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