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David Mehegan

Book Review: “New England Bound” — Slavery and the Puritans

It is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Liverwright, New England, New England Bound, Puritian, seventeenth century, Slavery, Slavery and Colonization in Early America, W.W. Norton, Wendy Warren

Book Review: “Anger and Forgiveness” — Curb Your Choler

Although Anger and Forgiveness is a work of systematic philosophy it is also provocatively personal.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice, Martha C. Nussbaum, Oxford University Press, philosophy

Book Review: Patrick Modiano’s Maximal Minimalism

These three books by Patrick Modiano are short, intense, and sensuous.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book, After the Circus, French literature, Paris Nocturne, Patrick Modiano, Pedigree: A Memoir, translation, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “The Dirty Dust” — Voices From the Underground, Sublime, Spiteful, Satiric

The Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Alan Titley, Irish Literature, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Margellos World Republic of Letters, The Dirty Dust, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: Sanford Friedman’s Utterly Original “Conversations with Beethoven”

How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Conversations with Beethoven, gay fiction, Music, New York Review Books, Peter Cameron, Richard Howard, Sanford Friedman, Totempole

Fuse Book Review: “Trieste” — A Vivid and Lurid Chronicle of Horrors

As fiction, “Trieste” is almost entirely a dense tapestry of thinking, remembering, agonizing and raging.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Croatian, Daša Drndić, Ellen-Elias-Bursac, fiction-in-translation, Lebensborn, Treblinka

Book Review: “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul” — A Lengthy Tale of Innocence Betrayed

Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American, Bob Shacochis, contemporary, fiction, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Fuse Book Review: “The Infatuations” — Funereal Ruminations on a Murder

Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Javier-Marias, Spanish-literature, The Infatuations, translation

Book Review: “In Times of Fading Light” — A Rich Story of Divided Hearts

Though its central events are in the past, conveyed by characters by means of often ambiguous shreds of memory and musing, “In Times of Fading Light” is a work of quiet power and beauty, dense with sorrow, telling detail, and suspense.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Eugen Ruge, german, In Times of Fading Light, translation

Book Review: Denise Levertov — More Than a Famous Antiwar Poet

This meticulous biography of Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov is the labor of many years and of deep reflection and care.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov, American, Denise Levertov, Donna Krolik Hollenberg, Poetry

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