Books
We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.
Read MoreAlex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.
Read MoreThis is more interesting than a sweeping survey, it is a portrait of an African-American musician whose career peaked in the Swing Era.
Read MoreDespite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.
Read MoreNow, more than ever, It’s worth being reminded of our natural potential for good.
Read MoreHaving long gotten “the short end of the stick,” Sex Pistols founding member Steve Jones decided to write his autobiography.
Read MoreIt would be a mistake to call the absorbing Eve out of her Ruins a mystery novel.
Read MoreReading William Trevor will enrich you in ways you cannot imagine.
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Literary Homage: John Berger’s Masterpiece, “A Painter of Our Time”
A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.
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