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Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come

December 12, 2016
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Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.

Book Review: Poet Philip Levine — The Kernel of Life

December 9, 2016
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These posthumous volumes provide ample proof that poet Philip Levine was far more than a proletariat troubadour.

Book Interview: Natsume Sōseki — A Century After the Death of a Literary Giant

December 9, 2016
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Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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