From History of Intellectual Culture, Yvon Grenier (St. Francis Xavier): Milan Kundera on Politics and the Novel; Susan M. Purviance (Toledo): Hutcheson's Aesthetic Realism and Moral Qualities; and Popular Cultural Studies and Accelerated Modernity: An interview with Steve Redhead, author of Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture; a review of Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830; an a review of Form and Meaning in the History of the Book: Selected Essays.
From Australian Book Review, Testosterone in Spring Street: A review of The Victorian Premiers 1856-2006; a review of Janette Turner Hospital's Orpheus Lost; a review of Adib Khan's Spiral Road; a review of Rodney Hall's Love Without Hope; a review of Tom Keneally's The Widow and Her Hero; and a review of Life Class: The Education of a Biographer.
From The Believer, an essay on The Codex Serpahinianus: How mysterious is a mysterious text if the author is still alive (and emailing)?; with its dark green Mercedes, Glenn Gould records, and spare but imposing furniture, Thomas Bernhard's house in Upper Austria is a creation as deliberate and public as any of his novels or plays; an interview with Dana Spiotta, author of Eat the Document: "I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around"; a review of A Bridge Dead in the Water by James Thomas Stevens: Is the disease part of the cure?; and a review of Varieties of Disturbance: Does Lydia Davis say more with what she says or with what she doesn't say?
From Axess, support that hinders: Should literature be a tool of the state? Essays on manoeuvring cultural policy in Sweden, state-sanctioned subjectivity in Germany, and art's middle-managers in France. From Australian Book Review, a review of Bad Dreaming: Aboriginal Men's Violence against Women and Children; a review of J. M. Coetzee's Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000–2005; a review of The Best Australian Poetry 2006 and The Best Australian Poems 2006; and a review of Terry Eagleton's How to Read a Poem.
The Poetry Foundation brings Donald Hall and Andrew Motion together in Chicago in what it called the first-ever joint reading by sitting poets laureate. In his prose as in his politics, a passion for radical expression: A review of Tales of the Out and the Gone by Amiri Baraka. Michiko Kakutani reviews Falling Man by Don DeLillo. Twenty years after The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe takes on the new Masters of the Universe.
A review of A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi. God's Frozen People: Michael Chabon carves out a Jewish state in Alaska. An interview with Cassandra Clare, author of City of Bones. From Bookslut, an interview with Tao Lin, author of Eeeee Eee Eeee. And you and her and everything she knows: Miranda July—now an author, too—discovers the fine art of the epileptic fit
