Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
July is almost over, and I have to be back on campus August 15th, which means my research leave combined with my summer vacation? almost over! And with it will go all hope of catching…
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Two Books on the English Language
Many of you who took a 1st-year English course — called something like Composition & Rhetoric or Writing for University — will perhaps remember working your way through an anthology of essays — to which…
View PostLionel Shriver’s So Much for That
I thought that Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That might make a hat-trick, withthese other two titles, of books I couldn’t finish. The rants of one particular character — against office and government bureaucracies, against taxes,…
View PostDionne Brand’s Ossuaries
Just finished reading Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries, twice. That is, I finished this book-length (124 pages) poem, and turned almost immediately to the beginning to read it through again. It’s stunning, difficult, tough, uncompromising, and wildly,…
View PostThrowing the Baby out with the Bathwater . . .
I just can’t do it. While I almost always make myself soldier on to the end of a novel, I’ve had to abandon two in the last few months. The first was the latest instalment…
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