An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skill...

Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F. A. O. Schwarz, Slavitt add...

Shiksa

In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Ele...

[Slavitt's] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent...

Praise for David R. Slavitt'Slavitt's touch is light, and he writes beautifully.... His satire is...

This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dea...

'A wonderfully disorienting title for a wonderfully orienting book. Deeply instructive, entirely ...

Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if the...

'The works of Plautus,' writes Palmer Bovie, 'mark the real beginning of Roman literature.' In th...

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcat...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich,except that it is contempora...