The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2022

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2022

“Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.”

By Dan Sheehan | December 20, 2022

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Heather Cass White Unearths the Correspondence Between a Poet and His Faithful Reader

By Heather Cass White | December 20, 2022

How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

“In the airport, we are all divorced from whoever we were previously.”

By Rhian Sasseen | December 20, 2022

Rae Meadows on Immersing Herself in the World of Soviet Gymnastics

Rae Meadows on Immersing Herself in the World of Soviet Gymnastics

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Winterland

By Jane Ciabattari | December 20, 2022

Reading Ezra Pound in the Neofascist Age of Trump

Reading Ezra Pound in the Neofascist Age of Trump

Tom Rea Confronts Fascism, Past and Present

By Tom Rea | December 20, 2022

Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

“In the work of making doctors, a great deal of imagination is marshaled.”

By Martin Dyar | December 20, 2022

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Josh Billings on the Pocket Universes of a True Literary Master

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It’s a Wonderful, Weird Life: Writers Recommend Their Favorite Holiday Movies

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88 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2022

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Meet the Nonconformist Designer Who Revolutionized 1960s Fashion

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Reclaiming <em>The L Word</em>’s Jenny Schecter as a Writerly Anti-Hero

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Amy Zimmerman Thinks We Ought to Take the Much-Maligned Character More Seriously

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