Book Review | ‘Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo’ by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
PBS documentary provides the seeds for the story of the buffalo.
David Starkey
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From Acre to Zagjewski: 31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2023
Our poetry reviewer picks his top titles for the year.
Book Review | ‘The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters’ by Benjamin Moser
A melding of art history and memoir by a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer.
Paul Is My Copilot
Two former Santa Barbara Poets Laureate visit the United Kingdom.
Review | ‘A Year with Swollen Appendices’ by Brian Eno
The 25th Anniversary edition of ‘A Year with Swollen Appendices’ is just as engaging as the original.
Review | ‘Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology,’ Edited by Nancy Perloff
This anthology of concrete poetry is an examination of functional form.
Book Review | ‘A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them’ by Timothy Egan
How a con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America.
Book Review | ‘After the Funeral and Other Stories’ by Tessa Hadley
Eloquent descriptions and people with emotional baggage flavor this praise-worthy new collection of short stories.
‘Old God’s Time’ by Sebastian Barry
Memory, grief, and long forgotten secrets play out in the latest novel from the two-time Booker Prize finalist author.
Book Review | ‘All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me’ by Patrick Bringley
What are museum guards really thinking? New memoir explores the life of one such man.
