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Book Review: “Death by Water” — Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed

October 29, 2015
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Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.

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Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature

October 23, 2014
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Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.

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Poetry Review: Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Divided Self

January 20, 2012
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Certainly part of the power of Tomas Tranströmer’s poetry resides in how, having established a jagged consciousness, he leaves us in between—in a world full of questions that are not easily resolved.

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Short Fuse: Finally, Doris Lessing Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

October 13, 2007
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Doris Lessing has always been massively and productively incorrect, and splendidly fulfills the mandate of a great writer by being so.

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