It is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”
Book Review: “Anger and Forgiveness” — Curb Your Choler
Although Anger and Forgiveness is a work of systematic philosophy it is also provocatively personal.
Book Review: Patrick Modiano’s Maximal Minimalism
These three books by Patrick Modiano are short, intense, and sensuous.
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.
Fuse 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.