He can glue essays together with wordplay.
One Way and Another (Hamish Hamilton), with a brilliant introduction from John Banville, brings new essays together with some selected old ones, to reflect on narcissism, obstacles, compromise, tickling, being bored and more.
Fein, who lives in Boston, is editor of this series of essays, working together with Steven M. Cohen and Steven J. Zipperstein.
As I read over his various posts, it became clear that he was struggling with finding a way to gather these mini-essays together in order to write a book.
What ties these charming essays together?
Ms. Cook's photographs have been published in a book, "Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries," together with essays by farmers, historians and an archaeologist on the history of dry stone walls in different countries.
Wilhelm's outstanding contribution was Die deutsche Heldensage ("The German Heroic Tale"), a collection of themes and names from heroic legends mentioned in literature and art from the 6th to the 16th centuries, together with essays on the art of the saga.
Those who feel like spending $29.95 on the catalog of this show, which is on view through May 13, will find what is in effect an extensive supply of archival photographs, illustrated cartoons and newspaper articles, together with essays that fill out the whole history of the Academie Julian.
Elkin Mathews, London, (poems and translations) 1920 Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, by Ernest Fenollosa.
