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An Interview with Jane Lewty
Lewty is one of MAKE’s seasoned book reviewers. With a background in literary criticism, she is perceptive and analytical, as well as creative in her delivery. We at MAKE were thrilled to learn that a book of her poetry, Bravura Cool, is set for … Continue reading
Review: C by Tom McCarthy
C
A Novel by Tom McCarthy
Knopf, 2010
320 pp
reviewed by Len Gutkin
Networks—technological, linguistic, symbolic—are scattered profligately across C, hinting at but refusing to disclose a grander unifying structure. Our necessarily partial comprehension of the systems that structure C’s modern lifeworld gives rise to a … Continue reading
Review: Red Rain by Bruce Murkoff
Red Rain
A Novel by Bruce Murkoff
Knopf, 2010
352 pp
reviewed by SD Allison
Red Rain is composed of plot lines as numerous and free flowing as the rivers that snake the western lands which Will Harp, the story’s principle character, has run from. … Continue reading
Review: The Book of Frank by CAConrad
The Book of Frank
A Collection of Poems by CA Conrad
Wave Books; Second Edition, 2010
176 pp
Reviewed by Mary Wilson
This world is very much Conrad’s own: one fraught with Kafkaesque anxieties and comical Freudian demons. A giant consumes a park bench … Continue reading
New Review: Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
An Anthology of Poems, Translated and Edited by David Hinton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover first published 2008; paperback published 2010
512 pp
Reviewed by Mark Molloy
The work of introducing Chinese poetry to Western audiences is still in its infancy; … Continue reading
New Review: Narration by Gertrude Stein
Narration
A Collection of Lectures by Gertrude Stein
University Of Chicago Press, 2010
96 pages
Reviewed by Marta Figlerowicz
“Literature we may say is what goes on all the time history is what goes on from time to time and this is what is terribly … Continue reading
New Review: Aurorama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Aurorarama A Novel by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Melville House; 2010
416 pp
Reviewed by SD Allison
Jean-Christophe Valtat thinks in French. Generally, he writes in French. Three previous works of literary fiction: Album, Exes, and 03 being proof of this. Aurorarama, his latest novel, … Continue reading
New Review: GEOMETRIES BY GUILLEVIC
Geometries
A Collection of Poems by Guillevic
Translated from the French by Richard Sieburt
Ugly Duckling Press, 2010
80 pp
Reviewed by Jane Lewty
“‘Englished’ by Richard Sieburth’. So reads the front cover of Eugene Guillevic’s reprinted Geometries (first published as Euclidiennes in 1967). ‘Englished’– the … Continue reading
New Review: The Lonely Polygamist
The Lonely Polygamist
A Novel by Brady Udall
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010
602 Pages
Reviewed by Patrick Haas
Brady Udall’s second novel, The Lonely Polygamist, is the story of the downfall and disintegration of a polygamist family in Virgin, Utah. Think epic American … Continue reading
Now With More Reviews
BOOKS! REVIEWS!
Along with our online exclusives, we’ve posted all the reviews from our print issues.
Find them here: http://makemag.com/reviews-online/
These books were often chosen based on the theme of the issue. Can you guess which?
The Skating Rink
By Roberto Bolaño
Translated by … Continue reading
Two New Reviews Online
Shore Ordered Ocean
Poems by Dora Malech
Published by Waywiser Press
96 pages
Reviewed by Jane Lewty
New Review Online: The Ticking is the Bomb
Nick Flynn’s second memoir, The Ticking is the Bomb, is a wild, dizzying ride through Flynn’s tortured past and the daunting but necessary exploration into our fears about ourselves and the world…read Patrick Haas’ full review
