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Philippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.
Read MoreWhat this magisterial biography does so well is give us an even-handed portrait of a remarkable, flawed man who is obsessed with a need to help the disenfranchised.
Read MoreThe prose of Patrick Modiano, this year’s Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.
Read MoreAmerican poet Paul B. Roth is keenly aware that a striking phrase can set a dream in motion.
Read MoreFirst published in 1964, Jean Merrill’s classic children’s novel has just been reissued by New York Review Books to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Read MoreReading this book is like listening to a lively conversation from a self-proclaimed Kerouac authority giving his opinions over a café con leche late at night at Cafe Pamplona in Harvard Square.
Read MoreIt 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.”
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