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John Taylor

Poetry Review: Pierre Reverdy’s “Song of the Dead” — Imprisoned in Life

Poetry Review: Pierre Reverdy’s “Song of the Dead” — Imprisoned in Life

Despite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Black Square Editions, Dan Bellm, French poetry, Pierre, Reverdy, The Song of the Dead

Book Review: “Eve out of her Ruins” — Mauritian Realities

It would be a mistake to call the absorbing Eve out of her Ruins a mystery novel.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Ananda Devi, Deep Vellum, Eve out of Ruins, French translation, Jeffrey Zuckerman

Book Review: Getting coupled and uncoupled — Emmanuelle Pagano’s Mini-Studies of Love

Book Review: Getting coupled and uncoupled — Emmanuelle Pagano’s Mini-Studies of Love

A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Emmanuelle Pagano, Jennifer Higgins, Sophie Lewis, Trysting, Two Lines Press

Book Review: “Cockroaches” — A Gruesome Story, Memorably Told

Book Review: “Cockroaches” — A Gruesome Story, Memorably Told

Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: 1994 Rwanda massacre, Archipelago-Books, Cockroaches, Jordan Stump, Our Lady of the Nile, Rwands, Scholastique Mukasonga, translation

Book Review: “France: Story of a Childhood” — A Timely Memoir of Liberation

Book Review: “France: Story of a Childhood” — A Timely Memoir of Liberation

France: Story of a Childhood is half personal essay, half autobiographical novel.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: France: Story of a Childhood, Lara Vergnaud, The Margellos World Republic of Letters, Yale-University-Press, Zahia Rahmani

Fuse Book Review: Dangerous Delusional Illusions — “A Cage in Search of a Bird”

Fuse Book Review: Dangerous Delusional Illusions — “A Cage in Search of a Bird”

An absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Cage in Search of a Bird, de Clérambault’s syndrome, erotomania, Florence Noiville, Seagull Books, Teresa Lavender Fagan, translation

Book Review: Marguerite Duras’ “Abahn Sabana David” — A Rush Job

Book Review: Marguerite Duras’ “Abahn Sabana David” —  A Rush Job

Did Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Abahn Sabana David, Kazim Ali, Marguerite Duras, Open-Letter, Shoah

Book Review: Incurable Absences — Olivia Rosenthal’s novel about Alzheimer’s and Much More

Book Review: Incurable Absences — Olivia Rosenthal’s novel about Alzheimer’s and Much More

The author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Alzheimer's, Béatrice Mousli, french fiction, Olivia Rosenthal, Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, translation, We’re Not Here to Disappear

Book Review: Antoine Volodine’s “Bardo or Not Bardo” — Seriously Spoofing the Afterlife

Book Review: Antoine Volodine’s “Bardo or Not Bardo” — Seriously Spoofing the Afterlife

One reads this strangely engaging book, like Volodine’s others, with a sort of knitted-brow amusement.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Antoine Volodine, Bardo or Not Bardo, french fiction, Open-Letter, translation

Book Review: Mathematicians in Combat — Michèle Audin’s “One Hundred Twenty-One Days”

Audin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Christiana Hills, Deep Vellum, french fiction, Michèle Audin, One Hundred Twenty-One Days, translation

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