![]() ![]() ![]() unless you're a natural-born sourpuss - or maybe resent the notion that a celebrated poet could one day up and write a novel and produce a crackerjack - you'll suspend disbelief, you'll buy the story "If you like to read and talk and argue about modern poetry in general, you will find James Dickey's collection of brief reviews and essays a very satisfying and provoking volume." has an unevenness that seems inextricably bound up with the kind of generosity required to by-pass the limits of intellectual and academic audiences." That makes it one of the remarkable books of the decade." The book has a passionate quality, an intense clarity, a lensing of the totality of being into a kind of carefully separated madness ![]() establishes as one of the most important younger poets of our time. "Dickey often manages to make his work memorable by the sheer force of what he has to say." Still, this second collection of his poems again proves him one of our most serious, able and distinguished voices." "His greatest danger is a certain expectedness of diction. Audio Special: James Dickey reads from his poetry and 'Deliverance' at the 92nd St.McClatchy Reviews 'Crux' and 'The James Dickey Reader' (December 19, 1999) With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times ![]()
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The ringleader of this cover-up, Masako Katori, emerges as the emotional heart of Out and as one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed creations in recent fiction. ![]() Natsuo Kirino’s novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story-from 100,000 years ago to the present.Ī Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived will upend your thinking on Neanderthals, evolution, royalty, race, and even redheads. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. But those stories have always been locked away-until now. In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species-births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. National Book Critics Circle Award-2017 Nonfiction Finalist “Nothing less than a tour de force-a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling.”- The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice ![]() ![]() ![]() Attacked by the servants of the Dark, threatened by the invading Seanchan, Rand rallies his forces and brings battle to bear upon Illian, stronghold of Sammael the Forsaken. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, has escaped the snares of the White Tower and the first of the rebel Aes Sedai have sworn to follow him. The war for humanity's survival has begun. Be sure to look out for the Wheel of Time Companion - the definitive encyclopedia for this global bestselling fantasy phenomenon ![]() And as the realms of men fall into chaos the immortal Forsaken and the servants of the Dark plan their assault on the Dragon Reborn. In the White Tower the Amyrlin Elaida sets a snare to trap the Dragon, whilst the rebel Aes Sedai scheme to bring her down. But there are other powers that seek to command the war against the Dark One. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, strives to bind the nations of the world to his will, to forge the alliances that will fight the advance of the Shadow and to ready the forces of Light for the Last Battle. ![]() |