Books

Poetry Review: “ask anyone” — Giving a Slant to Meaning

February 17, 2016
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Ruth Lepson’s method in these poems is to encourage us listen as carefully as she does.

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Book Interview: Douglas Kennedy on “The Blue Hour”

February 13, 2016
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“Even in a terrain as epic and mythic and exotic as the Sahara, you cannot run away from the weight of your past.”

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Fuse Book Review: “And Again” — Biological Engineering, Predictable Construction

February 13, 2016
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What’s most interesting about And Again is precisely what gets the least narrative attention.

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Fuse Book Review: Taking God On — Atheists Should Come Out Fighting

February 2, 2016
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Fighting God is logically argued, lucid, and makes a powerful case for a more secular nation.

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Book Review: “Les Diaboliques” — An Essential Hidden Dimension in French Literature

January 31, 2016
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In “Les Diaboliques” readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.

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Book Review: “Symphony for the City of the Dead” — On Art and Human Survival

January 28, 2016
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M. T. Anderson writes with a compellingly dark tone and a keen eye for characterization worthy of adult readership.

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Poetry Review: “Zone: Selected Poems” — Reproducing the Music of Guillaume Apollinaire

January 27, 2016
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Whenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.

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Book Review: Books about Rock n’ Roll — Some Rock, Some Don’t

January 23, 2016
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The success of Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, has meant an uptick in the number of new rock n’ roll books hitting the racks.

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Book Review: “Winter” — A Luminous Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

January 20, 2016
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This novel about Thomas Hardy becomes not only the story of an odd triangle, but also a meditation on the nature of art.

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Book Review: “My Brooklyn Writer Friend” — Flashes in the Gloom

January 20, 2016
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Thanks in large part to brevity alone, the way these stories work is closer to poetry than to fiction.

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