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Idea Review Michiko Kakutani’s: “Bending the Truth in A Million Little Ways” The New York Times has a very interesting article on the Million Little Pieces brouhaha by the inimitable Michiko Kakutani. Her article, called “Bending The Truth in a Million Little Ways” talks about a lot of issues that interest me–truth, lies, objectivity, the…
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Poetry Review Dan Chiasson Natural History Note, for example, the recent success of Dan Chiasson whose recent book Natural History is being lauded in poetry circles. Dan first “broke out” with a selection of poems in The New Yorker on “emerging poets.” His first book–well reviewed–was published by a good university press–University of Chicago. Natural…
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Film Review Lost In Translation America has always had a myth of itself as large and unruly. In this myth men are always cowboys or Jedi knights who ride off into the sunset or whiz across the sky at supersonic speeds. Alternatively the male hero is an entrepreneur or mad scientist who uses his ruthless…
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Poetry Review Mercury by Phillis Levin Damn the reviewer’s objectivity; Phillis Levin is a friend of mine. As so often in these situations, it turned out we had someone in common—a Canadian expatriate photographer living in Italy. Last summer, as I lay naked soaking up the sun in Sardinia, this photographer said that she knew…
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Charles Durning Carroll 