Brad Leithauser
 |
Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in Massachusetts.
From the Review
May 29, 2008: OLD GLOBE
(poem)
April 17, 2008: Glassed In
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943–63 edited by David Wagoner
September 27, 2007: 'Notes on Susan': An Exchange
August 16, 2007: The Shadow Man
Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice edited by Peter MacDonald
Louis MacNeice by Jon Stallworthy
Louis MacNeice and His Influence edited by Kathleen Devineand Alan J. Peacock
October 19, 2006: Lorenz (poem)
March 9, 2006: Baby, It's Cold Outside
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell
October 6, 2005: Love in a Cold Climate
December 2, 2004: Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
November 18, 2004: Zodiac: a Farewell (poem)
September 23, 2004: Keats Is the One (letter)
April 29, 2004: A Passionate Clamor
The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Norman H. MacKenzie
The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Humphry House and Graham Storey
The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges edited with notes and an introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott
December 4, 2003: Young Old Soldiers
Poets of World War II edited by Harvey Shapiro
October 23, 2003: Equatorial Triptych (poem)
December 19, 2002: The Awkward Age
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
November 7, 2002: The Other Half
The Boys from Syracuse a musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, directed by Scott Ellis, with a new book by Nicky Silver
This Funny World: Mary Cleere Harran Sings Lyrics by Hart
October 10, 2002: Laxness the Great
Paradise Reclaimed by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson, with an introduction by Jane Smiley
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson
September 26, 2002: Wrapped Up in the Melody
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael by Richard M. Sudhalter
June 27, 2002: Pogo (letter)
April 25, 2002: Lyrics in the Swamp
Pogo, Volumes 1–11 by Walt Kelly
December 20, 2001: Golden Notebooks
The Complete Sagas of Icelanders edited by Vidar Hreinsson
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection with a preface by Jane Smiley and an introduction by Robert Kellogg
July 5, 2001: Frequent Fliers
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly Sue Halpern
May 31, 2001: Mock Argument (poem)
May 31, 2001: A Betting Man
Bells Are Ringing music by Jule Styne, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, directed by Tina Landau, and starring Faith Prince
April 26, 2001: Tough Cookie
The Oxford Book of Sonnets edited by John Fuller
March 29, 2001: Let's Face the Music
Reading Lyrics edited and with an introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
September 21, 2000: No Laughing Matter
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson
June 29, 2000: Gaiety Redeemed
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
February 10, 2000: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Broadway
Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest
Putting It Together 20, 2000 a revue by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, by 1999-February at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, November 21
June 24, 1999: On to Berlin (letter)
April 22, 1999: Let's Face the Music
Annie Get Your Gun music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, as revised by Peter Stone, directed by Graciela Daniele, starring Bernadette Peters. at the Marquis Theater, New York City
Irving Berlin: American Troubadour by Edward Jablonski
Irving Berlin: A Life in Song by Philip Furia
Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir by Mary Ellin Barrett
November 5, 1998: He's the Top!
Cole Porter: A Biography by William McBrien
October 8, 1998: Cat and Mustang: a Still Life (poem)
March 26, 1998: End of an Epic
October 17, 1996: Here To Stay
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist by Philip Furia
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists by Philip Furia
The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin edited by Robert Kimball
Gershwin: His Life and Music by Charles Schwartz
Lyrics on Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin
The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin by Joan Peyser
Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin by Deena Rosenberg
September 19, 1996: Getting Things Right
New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice
Strange Relation by Daniel Hall
August 8, 1996: Great Old Modern
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays edited by Richard Poirier, edited by Mark Richardson
February 15, 1996: Notions of Freedom
The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry edited by Kathleen Scherf
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by Gordon Bowker
May 11, 1995: A Small Country's Great Book
February 16, 1995: After the Detonation of the Moon (poem)
October 20, 1994: Barely Sighted Lives
New Things Come into the World by Peter Kane Dufault
The Invention of the Zero by Richard Kenney
August 11, 1994: Great Scott?
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
April 21, 1994: Cold Comfort
Absolution by Olafur Jóhann Olafsson
December 16, 1993: 'Sweep on, O River…'
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman edited by John Hollander
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals edited by John Hollander
January 16, 1992: Just Folks
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
March 15, 1990: Any Place You Want
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
August 17, 1989: Microscopy
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
September 29, 1988: A Master's Legacy
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh
June 16, 1988: Signalled (poem)
January 15, 1987: Small Wonder
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
June 12, 1986: Out of Exile
The African Witch by Joyce Cary
Mr. Johnson by Joyce Cary
Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary
To Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
Prisoner of Grace by Joyce Cary
Except the Lord by Joyce Cary
Not Honour More by Joyce Cary
February 13, 1986: Poet for a Dark Age
A Summoning of Stones by Anthony Hecht
The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht
The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht
November 21, 1985: Irresistible Demons
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony H. Chambers
September 26, 1985: Playing with Fire
Late Settings by James Merrill
June 13, 1985: Seahorses (poem)
February 28, 1985: An Actor Plays a Trumpet (poem)
From New York Review Books
 | Herself Surprised Herself Surprised,the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly. |
 | The Horse's Mouth The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. |
 | To Be a Pilgrim Tom Wilcher, the hero of the second volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, has been at various times a political activist, a closefisted lawyer, a self-sacrificing brother, and a dirty old man. But as he faces death his unfulfilled spiritual yearnings are uppermost in his mind. |
Books by Brad Leithauser
Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (2002)
Few Corrections (2001)
The Odd Last Thing She Did: Poems (1998)
The Friends of Freeland (1997)
Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism (1995)
Seaward: A Novel (1993)
The Mail from Anywhere: Poems (1990)
Hence: A Novel (1989)
Between Leaps: Poems 1972-1985 (1987)
Cats of the Temple: Poems (1986)
Equal Distance: A Novel (1985)
Hundreds of Fireflies: Poems (1982)