“On August 3, the poet Jessica Laser visited the offices of the Review in Chelsea and treated us to a reading of her poem ‘Kings,’ which appears in our Summer issue.”
“On hot summer days, Richard Nixon would light a roaring blaze in the fireplace of his White House study, crank the air conditioning up to full blast, put on a little Mantovani, and gaze out the window at the Washington Monument.”
“We take an especial pleasure, as readers, in the diary form: that peculiar mixture of performance and unwitting self-revelation, of shapelessness and obsessive (occasionally deranged) selectivity.”