“Nox” is an elegy mixed with a scrapbook, memoir, and eulogy in which Anne Carson dedicates to her estranged and passed brother through a series of poetry, definitions of Latin words, and scraps of images. Through the piece, Carson reveals a trail of details that allow the readers to pick up hin...
right now or rather this summer i have been rewatching buffy the vampire slayer as my mother watches it for the first time. we are nearly done now, we are at the end of season seven, which incidentally is also my least favorite season and the worst season. it is the only season where i really fee...
I'm all in favour of experimental, art books--only maybe I'm not. While I found a few striking images in this minimal translation of Sophocles, I was also puzzled. What do the illustrations have to do with anything? They didn't add anything for this reader. And the random gaps in the text? For al...
“Reading Anne Carson is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.” on the jacket of her Albertine Workout, where she finds a novel way to communicate with, through and beyond Proust.This is not a review but an invitation. I picked this little booklet out for my father-in-law’s 90th...
In my short life I have learned that short novels need to be read for as long as they can be. Then the good ones should be reread. This is a challenge. These short novels masquerade themselves as something that you can appreciate in a few hours of reading. Yes, you can read The Lover in an aftern...