From The Nation, a review of Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems, edited by John N. Serio; and a review of Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda. The uses of erotic poetry: Poetry is an ideal form for expressing, and understanding, one of our deepest drives. It seems an amusing twist of fate to learn that Dan Brown and David Foster Wallace were in a creative writing workshop together at Amherst college. From TLS, a review essay on William Golding and the capacity for evil: An ambitious and complicated late starter who did not understand the impulses behind his own books (and more and more); and a review of books on Rainer Maria Rilke. Mark Arax reviews Imperial by William Vollmann (and more and more and more and more and more and more). They're no bodice rippers, but Amish romances are hot. From NYRB, a review of books on Samuel Johnson (and more and more). Fashion in literature: Want inspiration for what to wear? Read a good novel. Ted Kennedy, Victorian Hero: Darwinian literary critics on how to tell the "bad guys" from the "good guys". A Thornton Wilder boomlet of recent years has just entered an especially captivating phase. A review of books on Emily Dickinson. Out of this word: The greatest science fiction imagines universes wholly unlike anything we have ever seen before (and more). Julian Baggini meets Guillermo Martinez, the Argentine novelist with maths on his mind.