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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.”…
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
An intriguingly speculative study argues that the history of world literature boils down to a power struggle between outsiders and insiders.
Underlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.
No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.
Want to see some excellent new films? How about in pairs?
Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.
A new documentary artfully and excitingly suggests what made David Bowie tick.
Schmigadoon! is both an enjoyable love letter to classic Broadway musicals and a good-natured spoof of their now antique conventions.
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