BOOK BARN

#32:  CLASSIC CHINESE FICTION: A FINDING MAP FOR THE CONFUSED.  I was at college during the early seventies, when Asian literature was...

#30:  PRAISING KAEL.  If you’re ever in the mood for conversational combat, go into a roomful of movie buffs and mention Pauline Kael....

#29: A CUPPED HANDFUL OF SONG. Most poetry anthologies are programmatic—examples of the work of a group, a time, a style, a theme— and...