Book critic Dale Peck is known as "the hatchet man." He's trashed some of the biggest names in American fiction: Don DeLillo, Rick Mood, and David Foster Wallace. He's even called James Joyce's Ulysses "a hoax upon literature." Peck's brutal reviews have raised a basic question: can a critic be...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Art
Circe, the all-powerful goddess from Homer’s “The Odyssey,” is known for turning men into swine, and for her mastery of potions. The artwork “Circe,” imagined by Romare Bearden, is a black woman surrounded by mystical animals and a skull, wearing West African garb with a calm but defiant look on her face.
Melanie Ariens has become known for her water-themed art, a focus of her combined loves of art and environmental activism. She uses mostly recycled materials to make art that makes people think about the Great Lakes, the rivers, and the water we drink.
Pages
