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Columbia University Press

Book Review: “Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD”

The book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Columbia University Press, D.A. Miller, Second Time Around-From Arthouse to DVD

Book Review: “Woe from Wit” — A Great Russian Drama, Newly Translated

One of the masterpieces of Russian drama is done justice in a English version that successfully captures much of the wit and fluency of the original.

By: Laurence Senelick Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alexander Griboedov, Betsy Hulick, Columbia University Press, Russian drama, Woe From Wit, Woe From Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

Book Review: “Klotsvog” — Confusion Reigns Supreme

Klotsvog ends up being a fascinating literary failure. Good for academics, but bad for readers.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Columbia University Press, Klotsvog, Lisa Hayden, Lucas Spiro, Margarita Khemlin

Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

By: J. Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Columbia University Press, J Kates, Necropolis, Russian, translation, Vladislav Khodasevich

Poetry Review: The Golden Age of Russian Poetry — Revisited

Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Science Not For the Earth: Selected Poems & Letters, Columbia University Press, Konstantin Batyushkov, Peter France, Ugly Duckling Presse, Writings From the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Yevgeny Baratynsky

Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: Columbia University Press, Daniel Kane, Do You Have a Band? Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City, Patti Smith, Poetry, Punk Rock, Richard Hell

Book Review: “Rapture” — Modernism, Daredevil Style

Rapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, Futurism, Iliazd, Lucas Spiro, Rapture, Russian literature, Thomas J. Kitson, translation

Book Interview: Natsume Sōseki — A Century After the Death of a Literary Giant

Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Interview, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, John Nathan, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Natsume-Soseki, The Gate

Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism

Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Books, Review, World Books Tagged: and Journeys in Teaching, Carrie J. Preston, Columbia University Press, Ezra Pound, Learning To Kneel: Noh, modernism, Noh

Book Review: A Superb Biography of French Filmmaker Éric Rohmer

The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Film, Review Tagged: Antoine de Baecque, Cahiers du Cinema, Columbia University Press, Éric Rohmer, Noël Herpe

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