Books
According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”
Read MorePascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.
Read MoreThe Bridal Chair will not only answer many questions about this complicated, famous family; like Chagall’s best work, it will also linger in the mind.
Read MoreRobert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.
Read MoreThe Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
Read MoreFrench writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.
Read MoreYasmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.
Read MoreA graphic novel about the death of art and the art of death
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