by Parul Sehgal, PWxyz, Mar. 18, 2011 We’re happy to announce a new series on PWxyz–The Art of the Review. Every Friday, we’ll be interviewing our favorite reviewers, talking technique, and taking the pulse of criticism today: How do critics select books to review? Have they ever been wrong about a book? How much impact [...]
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The Art of the Review I: Laura Miller
Posted in Interviews, tagged Art of the Review, Book Reviews, Interview with Laura Miller, Laura Miller, literary criticism on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Posted in Reviews, tagged Book Reviews, David Abram, Review of Becoming Animal, Spell of the Sensuous on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By David Abram (Pantheon) Parul Sehgal, Bookforum, Sept. 1 David Abram, ecologist and author of Spell of the Sensuous (1996), is the hierophant of a group best described as environmental ecstatics—nature writers with a primary interest not in studying or saving the earth, but in reveling in its metaphysical powers. In his new book, Becoming Animal, Abram [...]
Dreaming in Hindi
Posted in Reviews, tagged Book Reviews, Dreaming in Hindi, Hindi, india, Katherine Russell Rich on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Katherine Russell Rich. Harcourt, $26. Parul Sehgal, Time Out New York Westerners at a spiritual or career crossroads have long made pilgrimages to India, looking for God or ganja—but grammar? So begins journalist Katherine Rich’s contrarian memoir of transplanting herself from New York to the desert town of Udaipur to learn Hindi. Motivated by a passion [...]
