In Ada Calhoun’s ‘Also a Poet,’ writing a biography of Frank O’Hara is really a way of writing an autobiography of Calhoun’s relationship with her father.
Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.
By watching and listening and, most of all, by writing, Andre Dubus continues to celebrate the human spirit in which it is possible to see the power of God and God's grace at work.
