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Late on posting this here, but I reviewed Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists over at The Millions.
Continued →My essay on Adam Phillips is up at The Bookslut.
Continued →My review of Unpacking My Library, edited by Leah Price, is up at The Rumpus. I call it “coffee-table fodder for the nerd set.”
Continued →My essay on rereading is up at The Millions.
Continued →My review of Nathaniel Philbrick’s book is up at The Rumpus.
Continued →My tell-all account of studying under the fantastic and woefully underappreciated Richard Poirier is in the October issue of The Believer (teaser only at the link—go buy the issue!). To give a flavor of the piece, their always great “Discussed” list:
Grad-School Lingua Franca, Fiery Jeremiads,T. S. Eliot’s Romantic Troubles, Pernicious [...]
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A blog by Lisa Levy about dead critics, a few live critics, and the nature of critical inquiry
