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Drew’s 2025 Year in Books
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| I didn't know that Margaret Atwood wrote so much science fiction. I thought "The Handmaid's Tale" was an outlier. Well, now I know better. Her dystopian vision here -- the first of a sci-fi trilogy! -- is a world in which pure science goes bonkers wi ...more | |
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| Is Edna St. Vincent Millay old-fashioned? Sure. What of it. Because her politics sure feel of the moment, what with two sonnets honoring Sacco and Vanzetti, the antihumanist musing within "The Return" and "Apostrophe to Man," and the subsequent epic ...more | |
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| My interest in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy nearly petered out after Book 3 but I'm glad I came back to finish the series, albeit ten years later, because this concluding volume is a stunner, a vigorous collision with the built-in destructiveness t ...more | |
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| Is Edna St. Vincent Millay old-fashioned? Sure. What of it. Because her politics sure feel of the moment, what with two sonnets honoring Sacco and Vanzetti, the antihumanist musing within "The Return" and "Apostrophe to Man," and the subsequent epic ...more | |
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| As someone who just saw a revival of "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway and was deeply moved by the production, I was primed to delve into Arthur Miller's memoir recounting his six weeks directing his most-famous play for its premiere in China's capit ...more | |
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“Have I slept with 118 men? Maybe more. Can I name them? Probably half. Surnames too? That number's more like ten. Do the nameless matter? Absolutely.” Raw, messy, and shrewd, PERIODIC BOYFRIENDS is a really clever take on the sonnet form. In Pisarr" Read more of this review » |
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| I kept resisting the idea that Pasolini is like some latter-day Italian variation of Jean Genet but then when the final story ("Rital e raton") shifted the action from Rome to Paris, I thought, well, what if he is. Like Genet, Pasolini has a romantic ...more | |
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| I suspect the books we write when we're young possess a different kind of energy. "Roderick Hudson," Henry James' early novel, feels suspenseful and alive to me even as its central conflict, the fraught friendship between a patron and a sculptor, is ...more | |
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| These ferocious poems had me thinking about language. When we hear "Gaga," should we think pop or pre-verbal? Can we read "trannie" as we did 10 years ago? And what of the many neologisms (polycursal, normacles, voluptorium, runtwort) and the vocab b ...more | |
