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World Books Update

By Bill Marx Two new World Books reviews up at PRI’s The World. Alexander Nemser lauds “An Elegy for Easterly,” a collection of sharply-written stories by Petina Gappah that explores the hyperbolic disaster of Robert Mugabe’s presidency. “Here are the daily lives of the country’s mechanics, bankers, students, housewives, traveling salesmen, beggars, and madwomen, everyone […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Alexander-Nemser, An Elegy for Easterly, Anonymous Celebrity, Drago Jančar, The Prophecy and other Stories

World Books Review: An Adventure Through Literary Time

An assured novel that celebrates, with considerable stylistic facility, an extraordinary engagement with the history of literature. Rex by Jose Manuel Prieto Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen. Grove Press, 288 pages Reviewed by Alexander Nemser Jose Manuel Prieto’s “Rex” is an adventure through time: not historical time, or physical time, so much as literary […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Alexander-Nemser, Books, Featured, Jose-Manuel-Prieto, Rex, World Books

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