Books
It took me until I was nearly done with The Betrayers to step back and realize that one reason I found it so absorbing is that alienation plays no part.
Read MoreCutting edge scholar Dániel Margócsy has penned a fascinating study about the early collisions of art, profit, and science.
Read MoreA compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.
Read More“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”
Read MoreStealing All Transmissions is slim, but nearly every page is filled with insight and originality.
Read MoreGalway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.
Read MoreMartin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.
Read MoreHave we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
Read MoreAlthough Street of Thieves is less accomplished than Zone, it once again displays how Mathias Énard is seeking new ways to talk political issues in precise, often gripping prose.
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Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature
Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.
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