Books
In Eternity’s Sunrise, Leo Damrosch’s prose flows, filled with imaginative lucidity.
Beautifully produced by Seagull Books, The Pilgrim’s Bowl is an invaluable introduction to both painter and poet.
People like [Yigal Amir] emerge in many social movements, people who regard protest within the bounds of democratic process as insufficient.
What seems to animate many of the fairy tales is a heady freedom from the constraints of realism.
Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.
Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.
Anne Curry’s purpose is not merely to act as a military analyst, but to explore the long cultural history of the battle’s meanings in subsequent British history.
If Real Life Rock‘s page count seems daunting, fear not. There isn’t an entry you’ll want to skip.
For a long novel, City on Fire is generously accessible and one of its strengths is in its absorbing, immersive momentum.
These three books by Patrick Modiano are short, intense, and sensuous.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95