The Best Poetry of 2018 – The New York Times

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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
TomMcGreevy's review: "Well Zadie Smith certainly knows how to write. Blazingly funny in spots, cool and perceptive in others. Almost clinical. And I guess that is the one problem with White Teeth. It simply went on far too long, for all the brilliance it contains. I certainly plan to read more of her work, but not for a bit, because forcing myself […]
Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the the 1950s and 1960s by Alice Denham
TomMcGreevy's review: "Denham's memoir shows just what it was like for an intelligent and attractive woman to survive in the publishing world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In short, discrimination and sexism was rampant. All those promising young men... exposed, for what they are. Well worth reading."
Agony (New York Review Comics) by Mark Beyer
TomMcGreevy's review: "Purgatory envisaged for the sinless? I don't see any humour, if humour is intended... Just life, on the down and out."
The Gate to Women's Country: A Novel by Sheri S. Tepper
TomMcGreevy's review: "A quite lovely book, though sad in parts, speculating about life after a nuclear holocaust. Women and men live largely separately and the reasons why this is so only become clear after reading mosv of the book. Deeply wise in so many ways..."

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