The Maris Review, vol 24

I’d like to point out that the book is called Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters; it isn’t called Why Hamas Is Cool and We Support Them.

What I read this week

The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf

I’m so grateful to Modern Library for reissuing this 1979 New Directions novel about mental illness, misogyny, and eccentric fashions. It’s the story of an artist who lives on the Upper West Side whose name is Ellen, except when she has manic episodes (she prefers to call them radiances, wit…