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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Ed Meek, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Tess Lewis, Vince Czyz

Book Review: “Kraft” — A Pitch Perfect Satire of Neoliberal Dreamin’

A powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jonas Lüscher, Kai Maristed, Kraft: A Novel, Tess Lewis

Book Review: “The Turncoat” and “Marrow and Bone” — Two Revealing Looks at World War II

For each of these major, prize-honored writers — Siegfried Lenz and Walter Kempowski– birth = destiny = art.

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Kai Maristed, Marrow and Bone, Sigfried Lenz, The Turncoat, translation, Walter Kempowski

Book Review: “Tyll” — The Thirty Years War, From a Prankster’s Point of View

Daniel Kehlmann’s narrative gift is so prodigious as to be almost aggravating.

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Daniel Kehlmann, Kai Maristed, Ross Benjamin, Tyll

Book Review: “Old Rendering Plant” — Existence on Trial

Hilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: German fiction, Isabel Fargo Cole, Kai Maristed, Old Rendering Plant, Two Lines Press, Wolfgang Hilbig

Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction, german, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, Other Press, Peter Stamm, To the Back of Beyond, translation

Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself

The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Krishna Wilson, Peter Handke, The Moravian Night

Book Review: “My Marriage” — An Extraordinary Rediscovery

Despite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Jakob Wassermann, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, My Marriage, New York Review Books Classic, translation

Book Review: “The Last Weynfeldt” — The Virtues of a Wry, Cosmopolitan Vibe

In this enjoyable novel, Martin Suter has chosen to sidestep depth in favor of colorful characters fine-honing their hopes and dreams..

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction-in-translation, German fiction, Kai Maristed, Martin Suter, New Vessel Press, Steph Morris

Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: and the First Age of Terror, Assaf Gavron, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, Death by Water, Harvey Blume, Look Who's Back, Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life, Roberta Silman, the FBI, The Hilltop: A Novel, The Sympathizer, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam-War

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