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Here we have the story of a young Czech woman who could not only take a piece of fabric and shape it into a gorgeous dress, but could also take her experiences during WWII and shape them into a compelling memoir.
Peter Frase envisions how our current bedeviling social contradictions and economic abuses may play out in the future.
English writer Ian Shircore’s book-length study gives Clive James’ poems the loving attention they deserve.
“The body is a curious monster, no place to live in, how could anyone feel at home there? Is it possible I can ever accustom myself to this place?”
Whatever might be dark about these stories may also be — since they’re reliably witty and frequently very funny — a welcome distraction and relief from current events.
What makes this book so necessary is that these are writers willing to state realities that members of both parties prefer to keep under the rug.
George V. Higgins created a style that was at first revelatory, then degenerated into a tic at the end of his career.
Wherever Robert Hass is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity.
Perhaps the book’s most impressive accomplishment is to make a kind of systematic case for Leonard Bernstein’s larger compositional output.
Literary Reconsideration: A.S.Byatt’s “Possession”
Tour de force? Not quite. Joycean? Perhaps in the way contemporary individuals overlap with ancient, mythical counterparts.
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