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World Books

Book Review: “The Notes” of Ludwig Hohl — “Everything Ever Created Was a Fragment.”

Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.

By: Alexandra Sattler Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Ludwig Hohl, Tess Lewis, The Notes, translation, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Strange Beasts of China” — An Exuberant Chinese Fantasy

The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.

By: Maxwell Olin Massa Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Chinese, Jeremy Tiang, Melville House, Strange Beasts of China, translation, Yan Ge

Poetry Review: “Outside” — Poetry and Prose of French Writer André du Bouchet.

Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater, Uncategorized, Video Games, Visual Arts, Webmaster News, World Books Tagged: André du Bouchet, Eric Fishman, French poetry, Hoyt Rogers, Outside

Poetry Review: Poems, Not Artifacts — “New Poets of Native Nations” and a “Poets Playlist” at the Peabody

Editor Heidi E. Erdrich has brought together a richly varied selection of poems, chosen from first collections of poetry written by twenty-one Native poets since the year 2000.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Eric Fishman, Greywolf Press, Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Heid E. Erdrich, Native American Poets Playlist: Poets in the Gallery, New Poets of Native Nations

Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction, german, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, Other Press, Peter Stamm, To the Back of Beyond, translation

Book Interview: Thomas Kitson on a Neglected Gem of Russian Modernism

Iliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, World Books Tagged: Iliazd, Lucas Spiro, modernism, Rapture, Russian literature, Thomas Kitson, translation

Book Review: “Our Dead World” — Testaments to the Never Quite Absent

Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi delivers some risky, but important, messages in these enigmatic stories.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Bolivian literature, Jessica Sequeira, Liliana Colanzi, Lucas Spiro, Our Dead World, short stories from Bolivia

Book Review: “Rapture” — Modernism, Daredevil Style

Rapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, Futurism, Iliazd, Lucas Spiro, Rapture, Russian literature, Thomas J. Kitson, translation

Book Review: Polish Poet Czesław Miłosz — Master of the Telling Detail

For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Biography, Andrzej Franaszek, Czesław Miłosz. Polish Literature, Harvard University Press, Miłosz

Book Review: Gershom Scholem — A Rich and Complicated Jewish Life

George Prochnik’s biography of Gershom Scholem is flawed, but well worth reading, especially for those struggling with their Jewish and Israeli identities.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: George Prochnik, Gershom Scholem, Other Press, Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem, Stranger in a Strange Land

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