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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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Help sustain an endangered journalistic species — substantial critical coverage of the arts.
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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.
Read MoreThe authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.
Read More“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”
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Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.
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Simply put, there’s nothing (and no one) out there quite like what Neil Breen is putting out into the world, and for that alone, we should be grateful.
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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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