Category: On Reading
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The Escape Artist
Walker Rutter-Bowman looks at the way conceptual constraints open up stylistic opportunities in Jeremy M. Davies’ short story collection The Knack of Doing.
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Emerson’s Tricks and Sparks
An appreciation of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s prose style, and Mary Oliver’s essay on the subject.
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The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (3)
Part three of a three-part series on the poems of John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney.
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The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (2)
Part two of a three-part series on the poems of John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney.
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The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1)
Part one of a three-part series on the poems of John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney.
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Knausgaard’s Reinvigorated Realism
Anthony Macris pinpoints the effects of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s verisimilitude in the My Struggle series.
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The Next Word, and the Next
Part two of a two-part response to John Mullan’s celebration of plot in literature.
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Plotted Pleasures
Part one of a two-part response to John Mullan’s celebration of plot in literature.
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Sympathy and Its Limits
Notes on a seeming change in perspective and/or narratorial voice in Raymond Carver’s short story ‘So Much Water So Close to Home.’
Infinite Patience 