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Dalkey Archive Press

October Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Short Fuses Tagged: A Story That Happens, Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Bis, BMOP/sound, Dalkey Archive Press, Dan O'Brien, Deutsche Grammophon, Fear & Fantasy, Gerald Peary, Gil-Rose, Hard Luck Love Song, Jason Isbell, Jason M. Rubin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jonathan Blumhofer, Justin Corsbie, Justin Hayward, Kristy Edmunds, Krystian Zimerman, La Reine de Saba, Luz, Mark Favermann, MASS MoCA, Mauricio J. Rodriguez, Nico Muhly, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Odyssey Opera, Paul Robicheau, Pentatone, Vapors of Morphine

Book Review: “The Dogs of Inishere” — The Ambiguities of Desire

Alannah Hopkin demonstrates a near impeccable sense of craft, including a talent for coming up with surprises.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Alannah Hopkin, Dalkey Archive Press, Lucas Spiro, The Dogs of Inishere

Book Review: Flann O’Brien at 100 — An Enduring Comic Genius

There is no way that The Arts Fuse was going to miss celebrating the 100th birthday of one of the greatest satirists of the 20th century — Irish genius Flann O’Brien.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: At Swim-Two-Birds, comedy, Cruiskeen Lawn, Dalkey Archive Press, Flann O'Brien, humor, Ireland, Myles na gCopaleen, satire, The Dalkey Archive, The Poor Mouth, The Third Policeman

Fuse Book Review: A Couple of Nihilists Ready for a Piece of the Action

Both of these novels about social corruption should be in every Occupy Wall Street library in the country: inequality is not a matter of fate but the result of an exhausted acquiescence to subterfuge.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Albert Cossery, Alyson Waters, Cairo, Dalkey Archive Press, Exiled From Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo, New Directors, satire, The Colors of Infamy

Book Review: How To Sing in Dark Times — “Brecht at Night”

I am one of the judges for the Best Translated Book Award (fiction division) sponsored by Three Percent. The five finalists will be announced in New York on February 16th. Three Percent honcho Chad Post needed help to meet his goal of posting a commentary on each of the 25 volumes on the BTB’s fiction […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Brecht at Night, communism, Dalkey Archive Press, Estonia, Estonian, fiction, hitler, Mati Unt, Stalin

Book Commentary: Thirty Years Ago Stanley Elkin Raised Hell

By Bill Marx The ruckus kicked up by Yale University Press’s refusal to include cartoons offensive to some Muslims in a forthcoming book called “The Cartoons that Shook the World” underlines the ironic difference between offensive words and images. (Perhaps Yale U Press should re-title the censored version of the book “The Cartoons That Only […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Dalkey Archive Press, Heaven, Hell, Persona Non Grata, satire, Stanley Elkin, The Living End

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