Books
In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
Read MoreThe protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
Read MoreThe writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You’re invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.
Read MorePoet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.
Read MoreThis study is an attempt to “enter” a foreign way of thought and to study the “possibilities” and, by extension, “potential mindsets” of the human mind.
Read MoreBiographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.
Read MoreNobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
Read MoreAuthor Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.
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