Reviews | March 01, 2010
Obession as Mythmaking: Six Books About Books
Anthony Aycock
Featuring reviews of:
- The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins
- Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose
- Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
- Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style by Mark Garvey
- U and I by Nicholson Baker
- Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Hitchcock
If you are a student, faculty member, or staff member at an institution whose library subscribes to Project Muse, you can read this piece and the full archives of the Missouri Review for free. Check this list to see if your library is a Project Muse subscriber.
Want to read more?
Subscribe TodaySEE THE ISSUE
SUGGESTED CONTENT
Reviews
Jun 02 2021
Review: May I Be Frank? Further Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
May I Be Frank? Further Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kate McIntyre Frankenstein in Bagdad by Ahmed Saadawi, Jonathan Wright trans. Penguin Books, 2018, 281 pp., $16 (paper). Frankissstein… read more
Features
Mar 01 2021
Review: Collected in 2020–Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note
Collected in 2020—Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note Sam Pickering Scott Russell Sanders, The Way of Imagination: Essays. Counterpoint, 2020, 259 pp., $16.95. Paperback. Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A… read more
Reviews
Dec 11 2020
Review: Why, Oh Why, Poetry? On Recent Prose about Poetry and the Future of the Art
Why, Oh Why, Poetry?: On Recent Prose about Poetry and the Future of the Art Andrew Mulvania Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder. Ecco, 2017, 256 pp., $24.99 (hardcover). The… read more