Review by Levi Foster Rizzoli Hardcover, 408 Pages November 2009 Umberto Eco is terrifyingly erudite, as anyone who has read his novels will attest: the extravagant wealth of information in his novels, on medieval scholarship, or the Kabbalah, or any of a dozen other subjects, is staggering. And anyone who has read, for example, the … Continue reading Book Review: Umberto Eco’s “The Infinity of Lists”
It Is Daylight by Arda Collins Yale University Press, April 2009 Review by Andrew Chen This past May, Arda Collins, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, came to the University of Chicago as part of the Poem Present series, reading from It Is Daylight, her first collection of poems. Tall and thin, … Continue reading Book Review: It Is Daylight by Arda Collins (Reviewed by Andrew Chen)
Picture Books For Adults: The Whimsical Art of Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Arthur A. Levine Books, Hardcover, 96 pp. February 1, 2009 Today’s graphic novels are striving to prove to literati that they aren’t just kids’ stuff. By tackling adult themes and employing sophisticated art styles, writers and artists like Neil Gaiman and … Continue reading Author Spotlight: Shaun Tan
