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Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) on Plath & Hughes [by David Lehman]
THE SILENT WOMAN: SYLVIA PLATH & TED HUGHESBy Janet MalcolmNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 208 pages. $23.Reviewed for the Boston Globe by David Lehman (March 1994) Janet Malcolm is among the most intellectually…
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A CERTAIN CLARITY, AND TWO POEMS BY LAWRENCE JOSEPH [by John Hennessy]
Happy Juneteenth! As noted earlier this week, I hope to take this opportunity to raise awareness of a few books that were launched in the early days of the pandemic. Lawrence Joseph's A…
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Invisibility Leaves Traces [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach My grandmother Alichka, whose birthday I always remember as it coincides with International Women's Day in March, had a Singer sewing machine. It occupied all the wall space between…
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FATIMAH ASGHAR, KRISTINA FAUST, AMA CODJOE, FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ: DISQUIET POETRY PRIZE WINNERS [by John Hennessy]
For the last four years at The Common we’ve been happy to partner with the DISQUIET International Literary Program, a two-week long conference bringing together writers from North America, Portugal, and throughout the Lusophone…
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Mark Tansey’s “Triumph of the New York School” [by David Lehman]
Mark Tansey is a definitively postmodernist painter. His pictures stand at two removes from nature; not art but art history (or art theory) is his subject. Tansey deals in theories and notions, presenting them…
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Met Percent: Week Twenty-Six [by Alec Bernstein]
“Faux tographe…” Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (detail), Leonardo da Vinci, Musée du Louvre, 1510. The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, Leonardo da Vinci, 1510. Trilby Clark from Movie Stars Exhibit…
