Volume 56, Number 12 · July 16, 2009
Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood
By Michael Chabon
When I was growing up, our house backed onto woods, a thin two-acre remnant of a once-mighty wilderness. This was in a Maryland city where the enlightened planners had provided a number of such lingering swaths of green. They were […]
Culture
Essay by Michael Chabon in the NYRB
From Paper Cuts, the NYTBR’s Book Blog:
Remembering Eden Ross Lipson
By Julie Just
Andrea Mohin/The New York Times Eden Ross Lipson in 1993.
Eden Ross Lipson, who died yesterday at 66 from pancreatic cancer, was a person of superhuman energies. An editor at the Book Review for 31 years, she was most visible for the last 21 of […]
So Five Minutes From Now…
I keep futily checking the mailbox for a copy of When You Are Engulfed By Flames by David Sedaris. I never did get any publicity materials but I imagine Little, Brown was awash in requests for this one. I unpopularly expressed my disappointment with Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim on Amazon (it crossed to the dark side, […]
In English, It Ain’t What You Know…
Beginning with his “English Delusionary” (a glossary of words created solely for this volume), Bill Brohaugh wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He spends a great deal of time considering irregularities in the English language and our repetitive abuse of them. This is not necessarily a bad thing because Brohaugh, the former editor of Writer’s Digest, isn’t cranky about […]
Collected Poems of Jane Kenyon, Now in Paperback
This complete collection of Jane Kenyon’s poems was first published in 2005, ten years after her death. Previously housed in four separate volumes, Kenyon’s work was met with effusive praise and was reviewed, it seems, nearly everywhere; the words “treasure” and “essential” being common descriptives. While her poems sometimes address the mundane, Kenyon “belongs on a a short list […]