Authoritative Voice (on The Drowning and Other Stories by Edward J. Delaney; The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories by Judith Slater; My Father, Dancing by Bliss Broyard; and Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux)
In Pursuit of Elegance (on Learning Human: Selected Poems by Les Murray; Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai; Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott; The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed by Jane Cooper; Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley; How Things Are by James Richardson; Years Later by Gregory Djanikian; and Different Hours by Stephen Dunn)
The Elegant Dances of Marcel Proust and W. B. Yeats (on Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter; Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox)