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Kevin Gallagher’s volume bridges Tang Dynasty China and contemporary Boston, finding in poetry, friendship, and wine a humane response to a world in turmoil.
Phaidon’s meticulous facsimile revives the playful chaos of Warhol’s 1967 experiment in publishing, though new additions intrude on the original’s aesthetic.
In “The Pope Against Nuremberg,: historian Gerald J. Steinacher examines how Catholic Church officials shielded war criminals—and placed institutional interests above moral accountability.
By David Mehegan This minimal memoir reminds me of a backyard clothesline, festooned with socks, shirts, pants, dishtowels, suspenders, underwear, bras, new things and old, all in various colors and shapes, flapping briskly in the wind. The Chessboard by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver. Other Press. 191 pp. Paper. $16.99. Jean-Philippe…
In “Will and Attention,” the essayist explores addiction, faith, and the divided self—and asks whether lasting change begins not with willpower but with attention.
In Heller Levinson’s exuberant verbal universe, words acquire bodies, punctuation takes command, and a sustained interrogation of love gives linguistic experiment an emotional charge.
Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.
Sprawling, sexually frank, and often harrowing, “The Disappearers” turns the enforced secrecy of gay life in Jamaica into richly layered fiction.
In “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.
Arts Commentary: What Historical Fiction Can Teach Us About America
From Peter Quinn’s Civil War New York to Dvorak’s New World, imagined lives can deepen our understanding of the past — and restore the arts to the teaching of history.
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