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Marilyn Monroe as Chanteuse [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday it is ) sang — and sang well. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King and…
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On the ideal novel: Latent in every sentence is an alternative [By Sean Ashton]
All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep,…
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“No, the System Did Not Work For Me” [by Jill Jones]
Jill Jones was born in Sydney and has lived in Adelaide since 2008. Her latest book is Acrobat Music: New and Selected Poems, published in 2023. Other recent books include Wild Curious Air, winner…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 31, 2023
Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews was published yesterday by Scribner. This inventive, searing, and political treatise-in-poetry uses erasure techniques to transform texts by Adam Smith (author of The Wealth of Nations) and Guy…
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Is the New SAT the Adolescent Equivalent of the Tax Code? [by Samuel Johnson]
They're reforming the SATs again, which means the columnists are duking it out about the efficacy of standardized testing, the merits of the venerable scoring sytem in which 800 aces the test, and the…
