Author: Cliff

>The current issue of New England Review (Vol. 26 No. 4/2005) has one outstanding story in it (sadly, not the one that is in…

>Smoke-free Staunton

>Check out the latest reviews of literary magazines at New Pages.

>by Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter’s latest book is a quick read and makes a strong case against not only the administration of George W….

>It’s a new year, all right, but it looks kind of like the old one: cloudy, damp, snow lingering from, what, a month ago?…

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>The Sun Bowl people (I refuse to call it the “Vitalis Sun Bowl”) are surely happy, but I’m not. This was the only game…

>by Russell Banks This is the story of Wade Whitehouse, a tough New England veteran, with heaps of trouble: a nagging toothache, a bitchy…

>In response to my recent post about Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, in which I commented that it reminded me of its contemporary, Reveolutionary Road…

> Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle and a wonderful teacher and reader, has a new book coming out in March.