Criticism

The reality of Bolaño’s outlaw image, The Daily Beast gets into books, the Google books settlement’s collapse, Bill Murray’s support of poetry, and more.

At first, there was nothing to do but watch.
For days, before the trucks arrived, before the work
of clean-up, my brother sat on the stoop and watched.

Here is North Gulfport—
its liquor stores and car washes,

The house is in need of repair, but is—
for now, she says—still hers. After the storm,
she laid hands on what she could reclaim:

I should like Kennedy, there’s something about walking past a display lined with copies of True Compass that strikes a sour chord.

The Frankfurt Book Fair bows to Chinese censorship, B&N Review gets redesigned, a single sentence animated, private lives made public, and more.

Israel is Real blowback, authors make it big on HBO, Condé Nast soft-pedals an investigation into Putin, and more.