From The Nation, a review of The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini (and more at Bookforum). From The New Criterion, the sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens: William Logan on the poet's place in the American pantheon. Where the Wild Things Weren’t: Maurice Sendak’s classic may be one of those books that are appreciated more in theory, or by adults, than by actual kids. One of the least coveted prizes in literature is the "Bad Sex" award in fiction; if Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories finds a British publisher, Indians will have another shot at that prize (and here are 5 steps to writing successful erotic fiction). With sci-fi filling up every corner of cinema and TV and mainstream literature borrowing its ideas freely, where next for the literary tradition that started the

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