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Mary Jane and Mary Warner [by DL]
Who would have guessed that the path to legalization would go through medicine first and then commerce? You would have thought the example of Prohibition — how ineffective it was, how unpopular, how much…
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Ann Kjellberg presents a poem by James Stotts
Ann Kjellberg, founding editor of Little Star, an annual journal of poetry and prose, and Little Star Weekly, its mobile app version, will be offering a poem every Sunday this spring. This is her…
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Brian Bouldrey, Guest Author April 21-25
This week we welcome back Brian Bouldrey as our guest blogger. Brian is the author, most recently, of The Peasants and the Mariners (GemmaMedia, 2013). He has written three nonfiction books; Honorable Bandit:…
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Point Counterpoint: David Lehman and Amy Gerstler on Mad Men Season 7 Episode 1
Betty Draper shoots birds (from “Shoot” — Season One, Episode 9) On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:16 PM, David Lehman wrote: Dear January Jones, How did you like last night's doings? Here are…
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More on de Man on Demand [by Jim Cummins]
Brooks Hits the Canvas (Ed note: Here is one of many responses to Peter Brooks' review of Evelyn Barish's The Strange Case of Paul de Man. You can find David Lehman's letter to the NYRB here.) If…
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On “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (part one) [by DL]
Who, when they hear the "Colonel Bogey March" that the soldiers whistle as they enter the Japanese POW camp in "The Bridge on the River Kwai," thinks of Hitler has only got one ballGoering…
