Exemplar: A Poetry Feature by Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri reviews Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage, the new black by Evie Shockley, and Solar Throat Slashed (Soleil cou coupé) by Aime’ Cesaire.

Buying Books

Buying books has gotten to be pretty complicated. Blogger Darrell Delamaide lays out your options.

A Dozen Biographies to Take Center Stage this Fall

More than 100 biographies will compete for reader interest this fall. But here are a dozen that, based on industry buzz, are likely to attract the most attention.

Blog Post: When You Can’t Do It All; Multi-Tasking in an Age of Budget-Cutting

Long-time journalist Frank Van Riper looks at how technology, and changing budgets, have affected the nature of reporting.

Winston Churchill’s Nobel Prize for Literature

Why did a politician win the Nobel for literature? Because, according to Brooke Stoddard, he earned it.

Bobble-Heads, Curses, and Buffism: Current Issues in Biography (Part1)

Biographers' Powers— New and Old— to Resurrect Lives (Watch for Part 2 Next Tuesday)

Novel Fragments

Martha Toll explores why so many recent novels are actually linked short stories

Found In Translation

Darrell Delamaide asks whether 'tis better to read in translation, or with a dictionary at your elbow?