April 2007
Can a writer be objective about poverty? John Cotter thinks William T. Vollmann’s striking approach in Poor People is both beautiful and frustratingly distant.
Was Huck Faulknerian?
Sam Sacks reviews Jon Clinch’s Finn, a novel about Huck Finn’s father, and decides that it owes a heavy debt to a literary figure apart from Mark Twain.
A Tiny and Swattable Mind
Steve Donoghue gently debunks the anthropocentric conceits of Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Hofstadter’s newest book, I Am a Strange Loop.
Either Way, I’m Celebrating
A poem by Sommer Browning.
Peer Review: Paul Auster Perplexes
In this monthly feature, Sam Sacks surveys the reviews of Paul Auster’s Travels in the Scriptorium, which caused some confused tail-chasing amongst its critics.
Absent Friends: It Wasn’t What He Wanted
In this monthly feature, Steve Donoghue revisits the great life and writing of Gerald of Wales, a continuously frustrated candidate for the Archbishopric of Wales.
Three From Wave Press
Kathy Rooney makes a close study of the cool-quotient of new books of poetry by Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, and Christian Hawkey.
The Open Letters Quiz: Shakespeare’s Birthday!
Celebrate the Bard by combing your memories of his work in this month’s quiz by Steve Donoghue.
The cover photo for April is “Fort Tabor, 2006″ by Jeffrey Eaton. An amateur photographer, Jeffrey Eaton lives in New York City and works as a fundraiser for Lighthouse International.
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