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  • A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 11)

    December 15, 2013

                          Delivering Tact At your front gate           an oily truck murmurs awaypatiently enough, it could be said,while two young blokes           in tattoos and muddy denimstug the…

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  • Vandana Khanna, Guest Author December 16-20

    December 15, 2013

    Vandana Khanna was born in New Delhi, India and received her M.F.A. from Indiana University.  Her first collection, Train to Agra, won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize and her second collection, Afternoon…

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  • Keep Your Top Ten Lists!

    December 14, 2013

      The Literary Man writes:  As a counterpoint to the current glut of people blabbing about the same old novels, we would like to say a few words about David Lehman’s NEW AND SELECTED…

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  • Because you brought a new kind of love to me. . . [by David Lehman]

    December 12, 2013

    There’s an old French saying,“the whole of a man’s mysteryrests in his hat,” and if youtranslate it into Americanyou get Sinatra smokingand singing “Memories ofYou,” “I Thought About You,”“You Make Me Feel So Young,”and…

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  • The Year’s Greatest Typo [by David Lehman]

    December 11, 2013

    In Peter Carson's fine new translation of Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych" (published by Liveright, together with Tolstoy's "Confession." in a single handsome volume), the eponymous hero writes, "I fell I'm fifteen years…

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  • David Remnick Salutes Roger Angell, Hall of Fame Scribe [by DL]

    December 11, 2013

    When managers Bobby Cox, Tony LaRussa, and Joe Torre are inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown next summer, the best baseball writer on the planet will also be celebrated. Click here for…

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