Anne Carson’s new book Red Doc> inspired me to think of other works of poetry that made me feel, in Dickinson's words, "as if the top of my head were taken off." Here’s the result: from an Ouija board-assisted volume to a "starving hysterical naked" masterpiece.
Read MoreHerman Koch’s The Dinner chronicles four adults who come together because of a horrific act their kids have committed. Hints of Memento, a dash of The Silence of the Lambs ... read on for more of the celluloid ingredients Koch used to make his chef-d’oeuvre.
Read MoreIn England, doctors are now prescribing books to patients with mental health issues. And this week, David Shields put out a book called How Literature Saved My Life. Did books really save his life — and could they save yours?
Read MoreReading Ali Smith's new book Artful, at once a series of real-life Oxford lectures and a metafictional post-love story, I felt compelled to make a list of her countless references to art and literature. Here are nine of them — nine piercing observations that also articulate the book's romantic arc.
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