IDA — Gerfrude Stein — Random House ($2).Most readers require of prose that it make concrete sense as they think sense should be made. So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of ...

A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey's latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self.

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad – and it shows. Just as the title promises, the prose of this novel sings ...

The poet Anne Carson has said that if “prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.” Everett has always seemed to be on fire in his best novels. He can seem less so ...