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\"\"<\/a>\u201cSome poems smack of a gentility one would like in some moods to smack out of them.\u201d Even before I read that sentence\u2014about the sainted Elizabeth Bishop!\u2014I knew Maureen McLane was the poetry teacher for me. Her first book of criticism, My Poets<\/em><\/a>, is the survey course of my dreams: a long, loving argument with and about everyone from Chaucer to Gertrude Stein. As befits her subject, McLane is both plainspoken and lyrical, falling at times, as if naturally, into verse as clear as her prose. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember a college professor commenting that he was never sure Stephen Crane \u201cknew what he was doing\u201d when he dropped all sorts of clues and oddness into his stories. I had the same thought while reading Barbara Comyns’s 1959 book, The Vet’s Daughter<\/em><\/a>. Does all this strangeness serve a purpose? Does the bizarre ending mean<\/em> something? Whether the answer is yes or no, I still enjoyed the novel more than anything I\u2019ve read in months, and I\u2019ve already ordered the rest of her books. \u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Caro\u2014never disappointing\u2014had a particularly good piece<\/a> in the April 2 edition of The New Yorker<\/em>, on John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination but from LBJ\u2019s perspective. It\u2019s a bizarre and fascinating tale of how history is formed both by monumental events and by intimate details. And that famous photograph of his swearing in\u2014as he stands grim-faced and flanked by Lady Bird and Jackie\u2014will never look the same to me again. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the intimidating length or experimental style that had me wondering, Wait, what?<\/em>, when reading Finnegans Wake<\/em>. It was my damned curiosity about the \u201ccareful teacakes\u201d that Joyce introduces. My foodie heart salivated at the thought\u2014where do I get one of those? Luckily, I stumbled upon A Trifle, a Coddle, a Fry: An Irish Literary Cookbook<\/em><\/a> last weekend and was thrilled to find a recipe for these mysterious treats alongside sixty-six other recipes gathered from food references in the writing of twelve Irish authors, including Beckett and Shaw. Crack it open for a satisfying literary and gastronomic adventure, and let the sating begin. \u2014Elizabeth Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Masha Gessen\u2019s The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin<\/em><\/a> has kept me up the last three nights. \u2014L.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week I attended a reading of Dante\u2019s Inferno<\/em><\/a> inside Saint John the Divine cathedral, a massive Gothic-revival church near Columbia University. If you missed it, mark the date. It happens annually on Maundy Thursday (which, for those needing to brush up on their Christian calendar, commemorates the day of the Last Supper). It was awesome, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. A wooden pew is really the only place one should learn about Hell. \u2014Allison Bulger<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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