Books
On Gertrude Stein
By Frances RichardGertrude Stein pursued in syntax the theories of perception and experience propounded by her teacher William James, and by thinkers like Einstein and Heisenberg; she activated in poetics the deconstruction of pieties about family, nationality, and genre catalyzed by World War I; she translated into verbal terms the flattened, multi-perspectival observations of Cezanne and Picasso.
The Provocations of Arthur Cravan
By Andy MerrifieldI can’t remember where I first encountered Arthur Cravan, the poet-boxer and wild man deserter of seventeen nations.
Off the Shelves
By Book StaffMahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror; Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography; Darcy Cosper, Wedding Season; A.S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories
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