From Virginia Quarterly Review, shoot the messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry; a final antidote: The journals of Louise Bogan; the music of failure: A review of Halflife by Meghan O’Rourke; and a review of Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon.

From Eurozine, first published in Czech in 1985 by the Toronto-based '68 Publishers, illicitly imported copies of Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being first circulated on a strictly hand-to-hand basis. Now, when it is freely available on the shelves of bookshops, what does it mean to the Czech reader? Twenty-two years later, literary critic Jiri Travnicek discovers a newfound appreciation for Kundera's narration, characterization, and above all wisdom. Labyrinthine plot: In Travels with Herodotus, the late, great Polish writer Ryszard

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