Books
One must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.
If anyone needs more evidence that graphic memoirs are the equal of purely literary ones, Invisible Ink closes the case for good.
“The question is what piece of the American experience is next going to add the richness of its voice to the Supreme Court.“
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.
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