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Henry David Thoreau the video game

By Greg Dybec

Walden Pond’s modern makeover

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2012 Guggenheim Fellows announced

By Damian Van Denburgh

Meet the Fellows.

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

Why, indeed.

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Adrienne Rich - RIP

By Damian Van Denburgh

Poet activist dead at 82.

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PEN World Voices Festival returns

By Damian Van Denburgh

Don’t miss this one.

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Teaching YouTube to read

By Damian Van Denburgh

Making a space for literature.

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Books Review

Life Sentences

William H. Gass

An old master continues to enchant.

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TV & Film Review

Anonymous

Roland Emmerich

Emmerich avoids disaster with this convoluted, yet well-acted, Shakespearean conspiracy… >>

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Old Ideas

Leonard Cohen

The old master’s still got some moves.

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Music News

Leonard Cohen releases new album next week

By Anna Graizbord

Laughing Lenny comes back.

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Patti Smith’s Woolgathering re-issued

By Anna Graizbord

Early memoir explores growth of an artist.

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The Man on the Train

Mary McGuckian

An intimate tale of two strangers who form an unlikely… >>

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Culture of One

Alice Notley

A fascinating and demanding book.

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Music Review

It’s OK To Listen to the Gray Voice

Jan Garbarek

Ambient jazz and airy fusion.

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Culture Review

UbuWeb

Kenneth Goldsmith

A sprawling repository of the experimental and unclassifiable.

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Books Review

One with Others

C. D. Wright

Captures the Jim Crow era in a complex mosaic.

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Critical Mob’s Top 10 Books of 2010

By Damian Van Denburgh

2010 was a year of turmoil, and our Best of… >>

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Howl

Rob Epstein

A free-floating exploration of the cultural significance of Ginsberg’s seminal… >>

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School’s Out: Literature’s Greatest Dropouts

By Damian Van Denburgh

Whether dropping out in defiance or being called away by… >>

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Joyce Carol Oates

By Tracy O’Neill

A tirelessly prolific American writer.

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Summer Reading List: Dreams and Diversions

By Damian Van Denburgh

The dog days of summer are here, which means it's… >>

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Surreal-list

By Damian Van Denburgh

Growing out and away from the more overtly political, anti-war… >>

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Bonnie Jo Campbell

By Damian Van Denburgh

An American original.

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City Lights Books

By Damian Van Denburgh

Proof that art, activism, and commerce can mix.

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Small Is Beautiful: Independent Presses

By Damian Van Denburgh

For decades, the independent press has been a crucial component… >>

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John Ashbery

By Damian Van Denburgh

The éminence grise of contemporary American poetry.

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Books Review

Nox

Anne Carson

Nox gives new form to mourning as well as writing.

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Anne Carson

By Damian Van Denburgh

Carson boldly repurposes form to express her unique ideas.

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Music List

Critical Influences: Patti Smith

By Stewart Mason

More than any other poet turned rocker, Patti Smith fused… >>

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Critical Urban Romantics

By Jim Allen

The sounds of the street become a heart-swelling symphony in… >>

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Triangular Road

Paule Marshall

Marshall’s memoir offers a moving meditation on her development as… >>

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Just Kids

Patti Smith

A brilliant memoir about two kids and one ambition.

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Music Review

I’m New Here

Gil Scott-Heron

Jazz poet takes an electronic deep-groove approach

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Before Hip-Hop: 10 Proto-Rappers

By Jim Allen

Long before even the likes of Kool Herc and Kurtis… >>

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Out Into the Snow

Simon Joyner

Joyner unfolds one striking movie-for-the-ears after another

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Spoils

Alasdair Roberts

Foreign, fantastical, and forward-looking

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Tao Lin

By Tracy O’Neill

Lin continues to dissect and exploit the 21st century in… >>

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Horses (Patti Smith)

Patti Smith

Author-turned-singer uses punk's energy as a starting point for her… >>

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The 10 Worst Leonard Cohen Covers

By Jim Allen

For every worthy interpreter who ever tackled Leonard Cohen's legendary… >>

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The 10 Best Leonard Cohen Covers

By Jim Allen

When you're covering Cohen, you either hit it out of… >>

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Kris Kristofferson

By Jim Allen

One of the biggest game-changers to ever hang up his… >>

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Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

Leonard Cohen

Vital but never-before-seen chapter of Cohen's history

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Patti Smith

By Stewart Mason

One of the most important figures in punk's development.

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Allen Ginsberg

By Damian Van Denburgh

A relentless, revolutionary force in poetry.

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