Nabokov, Modiano and Levi

By Elizabeth Taylor

“It is a fact universally acknowledged that Vladimir Nabokov is a genius. His stylistic brilliance, the intricacy of his post-modern narratives, his glittering mastery of two great languages, the brooding

Jonathan Galassi, Kate Walbert, Etgar Keret, and more

By Carmela Ciuraru

Bharti Kirchner reviews “Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition,” by Nisid Hajari, for the Seattle Times. Denise Low reviews Richard Siken’s War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon) and

W. B. Yeats, Kate Walbert, Heidi Julavits & More

By Elizabeth Taylor

Yeats turns 150 and BBC.com asks: “The 20th Century’s Greatest Poet?” To consider that question, past NBCC President and current VP Jane Ciabattari talks with Harvard's poet/critic Stephen Burt, Stanford's Dublin born