1. Lovingreading or loving-reading (a double verb, conjugated as transitive, where what one loves-reads is someone or something, Lysias or the book). 2. Loving reading (in which case, it is reading ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

The back-to-back scheduling made for a brutal schlep, but it was worth it: During my first week in New York, I saw, among ...

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack ...

the traps my compound being springs. Did God embody his reply in blond, see sacrilege? I meant respect.

The raw material for a travel book is not so much the journey as the traveler’s impressions during it. Whether based on a sustained period in one place or on a continuous trip through a region, they ...