Books
Garréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.
Anne Enright’s prose, especially when she is firmly rooted in Ireland, sings; she has the ability to get the details both of setting and character, and a wonderful ear.
Bruno Colson’s book is a wonder of research, and serves to shed light on the state of Napoleon’s mind.
In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
The protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
The writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You’re invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.
Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.
This study is an attempt to “enter” a foreign way of thought and to study the “possibilities” and, by extension, “potential mindsets” of the human mind.
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