Books
Miss Pat, reggae’s Chinese-Jamaican matriarch, reflects on a life in riddim.
Klara and the Sun is a dystopian novel worth recommending: it is a thought-provoking joy to read.
For Alex Ross, Wagnerism is as profound and far-reaching an aesthetic ideology – for good, ill, and all degrees in between – as any.
Those readers who embrace spiritual adventure — reincarnation as a mode of family therapy — will be illuminated and entertained by this book.
It is the loss of memories and the meaning of memory that dominate, generating speculations that draw the reader into and through Maria Stepanova’s argument and interpretations.
RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.
“Arts journalism should meet the same high standard as other forms of writing but rarely does, even in the good old days.”
In this beautifully written, shrewdly researched, and artfully argued book, Matthew Rafalow contends that how teachers understand and regulate their students digital know-how has profound consequences.
Here’s to the late Harold Bloom. Do yourself a favor. Get up early (or whenever) and read something that matters.
A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.
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