Books

Book Review: Blaise Cendrars’ Brilliant WW I Memoir — Surviving the “Shambles” of War

August 28, 2015
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The Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.

Fuse Book Review: The Decision Not to Have Kids — Examined and Defended

August 26, 2015
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This anthology is thought-provoking and often moving; a spearhead into a relatively undiscussed new demographic.

Book Review: “The Wake” — When England Stopped Being English

August 25, 2015
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More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.

Book Review: “Your Band Sucks” — Plying the Murky Terrain of Indie Rock

August 21, 2015
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Guitarist Jon Fine’s memoir is an intriguing blend of history, sociology, entertainment, and a healthy dose of after-hours pulp.

Book Review: The Resilient Wisdom of Tony Judt – For the Ages

August 15, 2015
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Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.

Book Review: “The Law of the Land” — How Geography Influenced the Constitution

August 11, 2015
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It is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.

Book Review: “Imperium” — A Shock-Packed Pastiche of History

August 10, 2015
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In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.

Book Review: Literary Critic James Wood and the Art of ‘Deep Noticing’

August 7, 2015
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We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.

Book Review: “Counternarratives” — Stories About History’s Metamorphosis

August 5, 2015
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What John Keene has given us in Counternarratives is fearless fiction.

Poetry Review: James Tate’s Last Poems — Dense, Daffy, and Original

August 4, 2015
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James Tate remains true to himself. These prose-poems are often stellar, harrowingly distinctive, and worthy of repeat visits.

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