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Book Review: “Epic Annette” — What Is Heroism?

Surely the selfless subject of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette qualifies beyond doubt as a true heroine of the twentieth century?

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Annette Beaumanoir, Epic Annette, Kai Maristed, Poetry, The Indigo Press

July Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: A Good Dignified Life: The Political advice of Hannah Arendt & Rosa Luxemburg, Big Wave Guardians, I'll Show You Mine, Kai Maristead, M. Night Shyamalan, Meet Me by the Fountain An Inside History of the Mall, Naxos, Old, Over/Under, Sarah Osman, Sasha Ray, Sophia Silver, Tim Jackson, Wlliam Grant Still

Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in Stride

Take a dive into any of Alain Mabanckou’s works in English — and definitely score a copy of the new translation, As Long As Trees Take Root In the Earth, beautifully crafted and bound. Vive la Poesie!

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: African poetry, Alain Mabanckou, As Long As Trees Take Root in The Earth, Kai Maristed, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Poetry

Book Review: “The Communicating Vessels” — Incommunicado

The late Friederike Mayröcker’s über-recognizable style has become a brand, logoed by certain objects: violets, lilacs, birds

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Public Space Books, Friederike Mayröcker, Kai Maristed, The Communicating Vessels

Book Review: “Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home”

Endpapers is an invaluable gift to literature, mainly but not only for the quotations, details, and beguilingly written scenes of publisher Kurt Wolff’s life scattered throughout

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander Wolff, Atlantic Monthly Press, Endpapers : A Family Story of Books, Escape and Redemption, Franz Kafka, German literature, Kai Maristed, Kurt Wolff, War

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

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