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Book Review: Michel Houellebecq and the Wages of “Submission”

If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.

By: Kai Marstead Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: french fiction, Islam, Kai Maristed, Lorin Stein, Michel Houellebecq, Paris Bombing, Submission, Terrorism

Book Review: “Imperium” — A Shock-Packed Pastiche of History

In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: August Engelhardt, Christian Kracht, cocovorism, Fiction of the South Seas, German literature, Imperium, Kai Maristed, translation, vegetarian

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

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Ashes in My Mouth, Dan Bartlett, I Refuse, Kai Maristed, Norwegian literature, Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson, Sand in My Shoes, translation

Fuse Book Review: “Blood Brothers” — Down-and-Out in Germany’s Zero Hour

Anyone interested in understanding Europe in the 20th century, or in the fascinating metropolis that is Berlin, or in a riveting depiction of down-and-out youth who refuse to surrender to the system–will want to pick up Blood Brothers.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Blood Brothers, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, Other Press

Poetry Review: “Breathturn into Timestead” — A Magnificent Guide to the Enigmatic Poetry of Paul Celan

Once you have wrestled with Paul Celan’s poetry, you may find yourself with a changed and sharpened sensibility to image and language.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, German poetry, Kai Maristed, Paul Celan, Pierre Joris

Fuse Feature: Why You Should Keep The Arts Fuse Strong — Our Winter Fundraiser

Why does The Arts Fuse keep growing? Because there is an audience for thoughtful coverage of the arts — but we need support from our readers to keep us healthy.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Editorial, Featured Tagged: Culture Crash, fundraiser, Fundraiser.com, Scott Timberg, The Arts Fuse

Fuse Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature

Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Commentary, World Books Tagged: French literature, Kai Maristed, nobel-prize-for-literature, Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences

Book Review: Daniel Kehlmann’s “F” — An Amusing Look at Our Disjunctive Modern Life

In F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. “The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Daniel Kehlmann, F: A Novel, German fiction, Kai Maristed, translation

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