The Lights by Ben Lerner
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A review of Ben Lerner’s new poetry collection.
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Be Not Afraid of Life, edited by John Kaag & Jonathan Van Belle
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A new selection from the writings of William James.
Read MoreEliot After "The Waste Land" by Robert Crawford
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The concluding volume of a great two-volume biography of TS Eliot.
Read MoreMemoirs by Robert Lowell
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A collection of the autobiographical writings of the great poet.
Read MoreThe Complete Works of WH Auden: Poems, Volume I & II
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The epic Princeton University Press edition of Auden reaches the poetry at last with these final two volumes.
Read MoreA Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
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A collection of wonderful, chatty letters by the poet James Merrill.
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Cross of Snow by Nicholas Basbanes
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A bestselling author turns his attention to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the great American poet of the 19th century, now largely forgotten.
Read MoreRadical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate
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Jonathan Bate writes about the young firebrand William Wordsworth.
Read MoreWhat Is the Grass by Mark Doty
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A contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.
Read MoreThese Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann
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A new biography of Emily Dickinson—told in ten episodes which “tell it slant.”
Read MoreThe Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson
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The “year of wonders” that raised Wordsworth and Coleridge to a new level of poetic greatness is the subject of Adam Nicolson’s new book
Read MoreHenrik Ibsen: The Man & the Mask By Ivo De Figueiredo
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Written with a surprisingly light tempo and an unerring instinct for, oddly enough, zingers.
Read MoreL.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
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A terrifically detailed and invigorating account of a very complicated woman.
Read MoreThe Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings by Leonard Cohen
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The final work of Leonard Cohen, revered poet and musician whose career spans generations.
Read MoreHouse Crossing: Poems By Laurie L. Patton
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House Crossing, like the two volumes that preceded it, establishes its own rules and sticks to them.
Read MoreTropic of Squalor: Poems By Mary Karr
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A new volume of poetry from the author of The Liar’s Club and Lit.
Read MoreBrown: Poems By Kevin Young
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A treatment of blackness (or brownness), and of the inextricable violence at the center of its history.
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