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...book of poetry since 2000, Robert Pinsky confronts global chaos and uncertainty while examining longstanding philosophical questions involving everything from memory to the mundane. His skeletal poems skillfully tie together the past and the present, exploring the capacity of collective memory and selective forgetting while leaving ample room for readers to reach their own conclusions about human suffering and contemporary existence. Pinsky divides “Gulf Music” into three sections. The first poems, which explore the human capacity to both cause and endure suffering, tackle current events such as Hurricane Katrina and the horrors of Guant?...
...point man for this operation. The deception, the Colonel believes, will force the Vietcong’s hand and lead to victory for the Americans. But like so much else in the book, this plan never comes to fruition, instead ending in half-sentences and unuttered phrases, leaving the reader wondering if it ever existed at all. In Denis Johnson’s last and best-known book, 1993’s “Jesus’ Son,” he demonstrated his mastery of short fiction. In stories such as “Emergency...
...such...” After six pages of this repetition, one is left asking: is Steven Pinker not a human being? Who is he to make these claims about human life and experience in such a detached, dispassionate way? But alas, he is one step ahead. Pinker reassures the reader, writing, “any inventory of human nature is bound to cause some apprehension in hopeful people, because it would seem to set limits on the ways we can think, feel, and interact.”For Pinker, language is the best means by which humans...
...Murakami's Magic I was thrilled to see the article on Haruki Murakami [Aug. 20]. As a student of literature, I am an avid reader, but I have never come across a writer as engrossing as Murakami. His style varies from descriptions of everyday events, such as cooking spaghetti, to intellectual discussions with total strangers to heart--stopping, beyond-reality experiences. His images are at times so vivid and meticulously detailed that reading them is like watching a movie. When I started reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I made a pencil dot in the margin next to every memorable phrase...
Murakami's Magic I was thrilled to see the article on Haruki Murakami [Sept. 17]. As a student of literature, I am an avid reader, but I have never come across a writer as engrossing as Murakami. His style varies from descriptions of everyday events, such as cooking spaghetti, to intellectual discussions with total strangers to heart-stopping, beyond-reality experiences. His images are at times so vivid and meticulously detailed that reading them is like watching a movie. When I started reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I made a pencil dot in the margin next to every memorable phrase...