The first poem in Anne Carson’s Glass, Irony & God is called “The Glass Essay,” and if you’re anything like me, the title might seem odd. Essay? As Guy Davenport’s introduction to the collection explains, though, Carson’s poems can seem like verse essays: “She writes in a kind of mathematics of the emotions, with [...]
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Full disclosure: I’ve never met Antanas Sileika, but I’m friends with his son. In Underground, Antanas Sileika tells the story of a group of people that, if it was ever really known in the West, is by now mostly forgotten. This both lends power to his story and at the same time causes a [...] In The Fire Gospel, one of the more recent installments in the Myths series, Michel Faber uses as inspiration the myth of Prometheus. Theo Griepenkerl is a Canadian academic specializing in Aramaic linguistics who travels to Iraq to make a deal with a museum in Mosul: send your artifacts to Toronto, where we [...] Check out my review of The Withdrawal Method, a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Pasha Malla. Natasha and Other Stories is a collection of short stories about Mark Berman, a Russian Jewish child who immigrates with his family to Toronto at the age of six, around 1980. The stories provide an episodic looks at Mark’s life from childhood, very soon after arriving in Canada, through his twenties. Bezmozgis’ style has [...] |
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