The Brooklyn Rail

Critics Page

• Toward Polyphonic Criticism

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  By Jarrett Earnest

• ABOUT POLYPHONY: All in One

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  By Bill Berkson

• THE ENAMORED MAGE
  Magic, Alchemy, and Esoteric Thought in Works by Robert Duncan and Jess*

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  By David Levi Strauss

• LISA YUSKAVAGE on Nina Simone and Giovanni Bellini

• Black Wedding

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  By Aliza Shvarts

• "PUTTING YOURSELF IN A PLACE WHERE GRACE CAN FLOW TO YOU"
  Nancy Goldring on Robert Lax

• Dolly Parton's Songs

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  By Dave Hickey

• THE LAND WHERE YOU WANTED TO BE
  Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and 17-year-old Me

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  By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve