Books
May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.
Read MoreJeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.
Read MoreThe imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
Read MoreA beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.
Read MoreMark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.
Read MoreThis is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.
Read More“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
Read MoreTony Fletcher’s research is impeccable, his sources are unimpeachable, and his style is thoroughly engaging.
Read MoreWe learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.
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Book Review and Commentary: Albert Murray’s Non-fiction – A Balm in Columbia
At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.
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