Attention

In Search of our Brains: on Teaching Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Irreconcilable Differences with God: on The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington

Is the Internet Ruining Our Lives?

Review of Andrew Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the Rest of Today’s User-generated Media Are Destroying Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Values". Viewable online at http://therumpus.net/2009/03/is-the-internet-ruining-our-lives/

Review of Into The Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

Two Necessities of Poetry: Plenitude and Exuberance

Review of "Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic" by Alicia Ostriker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).

Review of Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry

Remembering Gina Berriault

Viewable online at http://www.millvalleylit.com/MillValleyLitSum14/thescene.html#gina