Archive - Art / Life: Scribblings by Michael Bryson

Impressions of the new biography by Jonathan Eig

Mar 4 •

February 2024

In which the author becomes an author

Feb 15 •

January 2024

Asking (again) "Criticism is demolition?"

Jan 28 •

Paola Ferrante & E.M. Forster: Compare & Contrast

Jan 17 •

December 2023

Zadie Smith, The Fraud (2023)

Is it her best yet? Best ever? It's very good!

Dec 31, 2023 •

Toni Morrison (1997)

In which the author pivots and attempts adulting

Dec 23, 2023 •

Kathryn Mockler's and Claudia Dey's new books shimmy shimmy shake

Dec 10, 2023 •

November 2023

Five unsettling 2023 titles from Canadian writers

Nov 15, 2023 •

Tom Wolfe (2004)

In which the author stalks the billion-footed beast

Nov 11, 2023 •

The Shining (2023)

In which the author enters the weird zone of life's rich pageant

Nov 4, 2023 •

October 2023

Two reviews and some epic thoughts

Oct 17, 2023 •

September 2023

New and old reviews of books by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer and Rosemary Sullivan (and peaks at Elizabeth Smart and Gwendolyn MacEwan)

Sep 22, 2023 •

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