Christian Wiman: Art & Oblivion

HE PUBLICATION OF a book by Christian Wiman is always an event. One of our leading poets and public intellectuals, he is a writer who, whether he is working in …

Tim Winton, Desert Mystic

OR YEARS NOW, reviewers of Tim Winton’s books have been bemoaning how little known and read he is in North America. So let me add my voice to the chorus. …

Sam Phillips, Miniaturist

ISTENING TO World on Sticks, the tenth studio album from singer-songwriter Sam Phillips and her first in five years, I came to the realization that size really does matter—at least in …