My write-up of Dave Eggers’ The Parade is up at The Millions. Read it here. The plot of the book is deceptively simple: a guy…
Two verses in Walt Whitman’s poem that would ultimately be titled “I Sing the Body Electric” evolved with Walt’s life, and with his parents’ lives. In…
Amazon | Indie bookstore While the focus of Peter Rachleff’s Black Labor in Richmond is, obviously, on black labor, the book crosses race lines to…
A Time for Everything, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by James Anderson IndieBound | amazon My writeup of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons quartet is posted…
This is part 5 of the story (in 5 parts, plus one digression) of a white man who tried to glue together his life, sliced…
This is part 4 of the story (in 5 parts, plus one digression) of a white man who tried to glue together his life, sliced…