A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins “Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures,” a new biography of Denis Johnson, traces the life of a brilliant nonconformist. By Dwight Garner New ...

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November 19, 2025 • Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes ...

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'How to Fake a Haunting' author Christa Carmen breaks down why her daughter is a forever fan of things that go bump in the night A thin moon leered over a field of whispering corn as we boarded the ...