NEW LISTINGS
Albert Speer,
Morley Baer's Barns, and
Roy Jacobstein's Ripe

REVIEWS
The Chrysler Building:
Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day
"One of the miracles is that
somehow those who own New York City have not yet
decided to murder the Chrysler Building,
that sweet monument to the Moderne.
It went into bankruptcy a quarter century ago,
but the Trump and Zeckendorf types
must have been too busy with other massacres,
obviously didn't have time to do it in."

The Eden Express
A Memoir of Insanity
"We were helpless against this war
put on by strange automatons in Washington,
a war that took on a life of its own:
helicopters raining down Agent Orange on peasant farmers,
helpless people being murdered in the fields,
a vicious present from a country
that had always pretended to honor life and liberty."

Paris 1919
Six Months that Changed the World
"It's filled to the brim
with the weird and waggish people
who participated in one of
the strangest gatherings of all times."

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
"She has an annoying habit of
dropping French phrases all over the place
so we'll know this is happening
in Paris and not Kansas City ---
phrases like 'Mais non' and 'Oui' and 'Et bien' and
'Et toi?' sprinkled about hither and yon
like dogshit in the springtime garden."

Great Reviews of the Past
Double Down
"These two --- Rick and Steve ---
sometimes we, sometimes I, sometimes he,
add up to something more than one but less than two,
becoming, finally, a peculiar inversion of schizophrenia."

BRIEF REVIEWS
The Holy Longing:
The Hidden Power of Spiritual Yearning,
Andreï Makine's Music of a Life, and
The Prose-Poetry of Gabriel Mistral