Kai Maristed
The late Friederike Mayröcker’s über-recognizable style has become a brand, logoed by certain objects: violets, lilacs, birds
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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
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A powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.
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For each of these major, prize-honored writers — Siegfried Lenz and Walter Kempowski– birth = destiny = art.
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Daniel Kehlmann’s narrative gift is so prodigious as to be almost aggravating.
Read MoreHilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.
Read MoreEvidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
Read MoreThe imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
Read MoreDespite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.
Read MoreIn this enjoyable novel, Martin Suter has chosen to sidestep depth in favor of colorful characters fine-honing their hopes and dreams..
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Arts Remembrance: Tribute to Jazz Producer Alex Lemski