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‘The Dangerous Alphabet’: Kiddie Gothic Horror!
This book belongs in a bigger kid's camp pack, along with a flashlight for top-bunk freak-out sessions.
Posted 07/03/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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‘He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut’ and Jessica Valenti Is a Force
Valenti’s book delivers thoughtful observations on serious under-the-radar issues.
Posted 06/04/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Elegant Historian Tony Judt Offers Bold ‘Reappraisals’
These essays will only solidify his position among the best leftist writers around.
Posted 05/14/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Sex, Existentialism, the Métro: Frenchtastic ‘Voice Over’
This story tracks the tortured sex life of a nameless woman who works doing announcements for the Métro.
Posted 05/12/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Robert Gardner's Journals Access a New Side of His Work
Over 50-plus years, the documentarian Robert Gardner has chronicled the everyday lives of people from the Dani of West New Guinea to the holy men of Benares, India.
Posted 04/22/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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‘All Souls’ Brings Feeling Back to the Prep-School Novel
Christine Schutt’s latest is set at an elite UES private school (like the one she teaches at), but bucks any comparisons to Gossip Girl.
Posted 04/14/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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‘Flight Explorer’ Gathers Venerable Kid-Friendly Comics
Kazu Kibuishi's beloved anthology of hot new comics artists, Flight, has always carried a whiff of kiddie adventure story.
Posted 03/24/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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‘Pravda’ Duly Salvaged From Man Booker Long List
Houghton Mifflin has heeded our advice and published Edward Docx's Pravda, once languishing away on the Man Booker Prize long list.
Posted 03/19/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Jeffrey Sachs Has Actual Solutions For Poverty, Pollution
Obama's looking for a new foreign-policy adviser, and he could do far worse than Columbia's superstar economist, that rare critic of the Bush administration and the global power structure who deigns to offer actual solutions.
Posted 03/18/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Alexander Theroux’s ‘Laura Warholic’— Like, Whoa
Eleven years in the making, Alexander Theroux’s hugely ambitious (and just plain huge, at 878 pages) new book tracks the vicissitudes of one Eugene Eyestones, an acerbic columnist who falls in love (and hate) with his boss’ wife, the titular...
Posted 03/14/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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A.J. Liebling WWII Dispatches: Both Literary and Fearless
“Really, sir, I don’t belong on this battlefield at all,’ the tan soldier answered. ‘I’m strictly a non-combat man.’ I thought to myself we were two of a kind.” The first piece in this collection of A.J. Liebling’s World War...
Posted 03/11/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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‘Nazi Literature in the Americas’ Translates Amazingly Well
Roberto Bolaño’s English-language renaissance over the past few years peaks with the release of this translation.
Posted 03/10/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Poet Julia Hartwig Links Freedom With Having an Iron Will
Julia Hartwig is a poet too little known in America: Countryman Czeslaw Milosz called her “the grande dame of Polish poetry.”
Posted 03/07/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Even Walter Benjamin’s Napkin Scribblings Were Genius
Walter Benjamin scholars obsess over not only his published work but also his scribblings on scraps of paper.
Posted 02/29/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Book Charts Relationship Between Old Ladies and Pimps
Jessica Hagy has been posting index cards of (non-math) graphs and diagrams on Indexed since August 2006, and now she’s brought this online work to print.
Posted 02/27/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Elizabeth Bishop Collection Nudges at Perfection
This roundup of Elizabeth Bishop’s slim but sharp poetic output proves that some writers never produce a bad work.
Posted 02/19/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Benazir Bhutto’s Argument for ‘Reconciliation’
Finished just weeks before her death, Benazir Bhutto’s book drives home just what a loss the world has suffered with her assassination.
Posted 02/11/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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‘Fanon’ Tells One Man’s Story Through Another’s Anguish
Unlike in some contemporary novels we could name, the conceit behind John Edgar Wideman’s absorbing new book serves a higher purpose.
Posted 02/05/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Lit Biggie Writes for the Little, Passionate People
A wide-ranging run-through of what the author deems the high points of literary flair and “creative vitality for its own sake” in Western literature.
Posted 01/23/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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Taschen Shows an Underappreciated Art Some Love
Illustration may be the magazine world’s redheaded stepchild (and photography, its beloved sibling), but the good people at Taschen have devoted their good taste and even better paper to the art.
Posted 01/14/08 in Vulture : Agenda
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