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Book Review: “His Only Son” — A Delightful Discovery from Turn-of-the-Century Spain

December 1, 2016
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A splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.

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Book Review: “The Unknown Kerouac” — Unnecessary?

November 22, 2016
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The Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.

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Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism

November 19, 2016
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Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

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Book Review: A Superb Biography of French Filmmaker Éric Rohmer

November 18, 2016
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The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.

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Book Review: Getting coupled and uncoupled — Emmanuelle Pagano’s Mini-Studies of Love

November 8, 2016
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A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.

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Book Review: “The Hero’s Body” — Let’s Get Physical

November 6, 2016
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Giraldi was enticed by the fraternity of the gym as a way of filling out and firming up both his body and his sense of self.

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Book Review: Thomas De Quincey — A Memorably “Guilty Thing”

October 29, 2016
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Frances Wilson’s biography of Thomas De Quincey is superb, written with enormous empathy and insight.

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Book Review: “Dharma Lion” — The Rich Heritage of Allen Ginsberg

October 28, 2016
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The power of Allen Ginsberg’s legacy could be felt in the controversy over the decision to award Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Book Review: “Anatomy of a Song” — An Oral History of Pop Music

October 28, 2016
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There is no doubt that Marc Myers is doing noble work — if only Anatomy of a Song was more exciting to read.

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Book Review: Mark Greif’s “Against Everything” — But For Nothing?

October 25, 2016
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Mark Greif’s analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive..

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