It’s almost a shame to have to reduce A.L. Kennedy’s “The Blue Book” to a plot, but I will try, nonetheless: Beth and Derek are on a cruise across the Atlantic, Beth suspect… ...

No wonder, then, Wolff has written a self-conscious, untrustworthy, postmodern White House book. How else, he might argue, can you write about a group as self-conscious, untrustworthy, ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of ...

The other thing that redeems the postmodern cheekiness of Book One is, well, Book Two, a beautifully written personal history of his own immediate family (“an Esterházy family”).

When it was published in 1994, "Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology" became the definitive guide to the profusion of avant-garde movements in contemporary poetry. Edited by poet and San ...

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