The Long List
September 30, 2009

Antoine’s Alphabet

An investigation into the imagination and achievement of the acclaimed critic's favorite painter, Antoine Watteau, the enigmatic "master of silken surfaces and elusive emotions" who died in 1721 at the age of 36. Perl’s beautiful composed "alphabet" deftly combines admiration and analysis. Now in paperback.


Read our Interview with Jed Perl.

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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