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Charlotte Roche is one of the most famous authors in Germany. Thomas Mann must be spinning in his grave. Wetlands By Charlotte Roche. Translated from the German by Tim Mohr. Grove Press, 240 pages. By Tommy Wallach On the subject of literary criticism, Martin Amis has written that “quotation is the reviewer’s only hard evidence.”…
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What holds this wildly ambitious book together and drives the narrative is Rebecca Donner’s unwavering, partisan voice.
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It is dark, so very dark, at the ocean’s bottom. And yet, there is also a disquieting, wonder-filled magic in the child’s moon which hovers over these poems; an incantatory moon echoing like a lullaby, drawing on a time of innocence.
Read MoreWe have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.
Read MoreTony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
Read MoreThis invaluable addition to the Austen literature offers two for the price of one: a beautifully designed and printed edition of the novel many consider her best and a parallel critical commentary that deepens our understanding and opens up a rich, textured view of her world and time.
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Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.
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He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history.
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Although Anthony Powell’s stock has gone down since he died in 2000, I hope that this new biography will spark interest in A Dance to the Music of Time.
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Arts Commentary: My Blackface Confession
Did I try to fit in at my segregated school, betraying my father and his values to be a popular white boy?
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