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Book Review: Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — More like a Quarrel

Anahid Nersessian claims that her book is a kind of love story between her and Keats’ odes. But it turns out we have to take her word for that. Too often this study comes off like an acrimonious couple’s counseling session.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Anahid Nersessian, John Keats, Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, Poetry

Book Review: “Buy Me Boston, Volume 2” — Celebration of Advertisements Past

Flipping through this volume will help readers understand just how much the internet and consumer technology has changed the world of arts and culture.

By: Chelsea Spear Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Brian Coleman, Buy Me Boston Volume 2, Chelsea Spear

Poetry Review: “Field Music” — Lyrical Visions of Hardscrabble Vermont

The voice in Field Music is disciplined, its cagey earthiness unfailingly engaging our attention.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Alexandria Hall, Field Music, Poetry, Vermont

Poetry Review: Paul Celan — The Anguish of Writing in a “Damaged” Tongue

Poet Paul Celan has come to embody in person and in print the agonies of a half century of European culture.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jim Kates, Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, Paul Celan, Pierre Joris, Poetry

Book Review: The Books of András Koerner — Acts of Wondrous Remembrance

Writer András Koerner has dedicated himself, lovingly and brilliantly, to assiduously reconstruct the lives of ordinary Jews in Hungary before the Shoah.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: András Koerner’, cookbook, Holocaust, Hungary, Jewish Cuisine in Hungary, Jews, Shoah, Susan Miron

Book Review: “From Left to Right” — The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz

This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: and the Politics of Jewish History, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals

Children’s Book Review: Expanding Your Child’s Universe

A delightful translation of AntonTon (Antuntun in the original Croatian), a story about a “unique guy who does everything his own way“; whether you’re a classical music aficionado or novice, Carnival of the Animals would make a good introduction to the genre to share with children and grandchildren.

By: Cyrisse Jaffee Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: AntonTon, Carnival of the Animals, Cyrisse Jaffee, Michael Morpurgo, Olivia Colman

Book Review: Ken Bruen’s “A Galway Epiphany” — A Vision of Exhaustion

Jack Taylor’s awareness of his own depleted condition is part of A Galway Epiphany’s Beckett-infused drama.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Galway Epiphany, Jack Taylor, Ken Bruen, Lucas Spiro

Book Review: Nicole Krauss’ “To Be a Man” — A Virtuoso Performance

Nicole Krauss’ new book of short stories generates a curious, understated, but genuinely transporting spirit, pretty much throughout.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Harper Collins, Nicole Krauss, To Be a Man

Book Review: “Big Girl, Small Town” – Vinegary Vignettes

This novel’s greatest strength is its frank character sketch of Majella. The protagonist is sharply rendered through her observational, sensory navigation of the people and doings in the fictional Northern Ireland town, of Aghybogey.

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Algonquin Books, Big Girl Small Town, Melissa Rodman, Michelle Gallen

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