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Book Review: “Look Who’s Back” — The Second Coming

July 1, 2015
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The writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You’re invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.

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Poetry Review: Restoring the “Old Questions” — Klaus Merz’s “Out of the Dust”

June 16, 2015
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Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.

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Fuse Book Review: “The Book of Beginnings” — Vive les indifférences!

June 8, 2015
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This study is an attempt to “enter” a foreign way of thought and to study the “possibilities” and, by extension, “potential mindsets” of the human mind.

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Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”

May 30, 2015
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.

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Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

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Fuse Book Review: A Peek Inside the Palace of a Veteran French Wordsmith

April 17, 2015
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Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.

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Book Review: When Fate Totters — Pascal Garnier’s Bleak Romans Noirs

April 7, 2015
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Pascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.

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Book Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a Hurry” — A Diary of Dreams

March 25, 2015
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Antonio Tabucchi’s fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion.

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Book Review: “The Dirty Dust” — Voices From the Underground, Sublime, Spiteful, Satiric

March 23, 2015
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The Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.

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Book Review: “The Sexual Night” — Origins Unknown

March 21, 2015
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French writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.

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