The Dignity of Life in “The Late Americans” – Chicago Review of Books

The Dignity of Life in “The Late Americans” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Brandon Taylor’s new novel, The Late Americans, begins with a character you wouldn’t want to be stuck with in your MFA workshop. Seamus is the only white male student in his graduate poetry seminar, where he doesn’t think anyone’s work is any good, since it’s all tied up in their individual traumas and not … Read more

Art and Culture on Their Own Terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts” – Chicago Review of Books

Art and Culture on Their Own Terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “Sitting down to write a letter, with an addressee and signatory, is an intimate experience,” editors Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam write in the introduction of Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. The pretext is deceptively simple: Ho, a visual artist, and Nam, a curator, invited Asian Americans, loosely defined, working … Read more