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Book Review: “Letters to Camondo” — An Essential Testament to Jewish Memory and History

This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Edmund de Waal, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Letters to Camondo, Roberta Silman

Book Review: “Cool For America” — A World of Dazed Impermanence

Hardly a portrait of glory from sea to shining sea, these tales drop in on estranged, lost, and overwhelmed people.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrew Martin, Cool for America, Drew Hart, Farrar Straus & Giroux

Book Review: “Parakeet” — A Wild Constellation

Parakeet is a virtuosic, perplexing, challenging trip. If it’s too disturbing a tale for this particular moment (it shouldn’t be), it may be a great work to explore in a year to come.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet

Book Review: “Like Flies from Afar” — A Very Twisted Odyssey

This is hard-hitting neo-noir parable whose dark humor delights as it strikes at the corrupt heart of business as usual in Argentina.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adrian Nathan West, Farrar Straus & Giroux, K. Ferrari, Like Flies, Like Flies From Afar, Lucas Spiro

Book Review: “You Will Never Be Forgotten” — Curiouser and Curiouser

Whatever might be dark about these stories may also be — since they’re reliably witty and frequently very funny — a welcome distraction and relief from current events.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Mary South, You Will Never Be Forgotten

Poetry Review: “If Men, Then” — Verse on Present Day Firing Lines

Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Eliza Griswold, Farrar Straus & Giroux, If Men, Then

Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself

The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Krishna Wilson, Peter Handke, The Moravian Night

Book Review: Thomas De Quincey — A Memorably “Guilty Thing”

Frances Wilson’s biography of Thomas De Quincey is superb, written with enormous empathy and insight.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: English Romanticism, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas De Quincey, Thomas De Quincey

Book Review: “The Last Painting of Sara De Vos” — On Art and Forgery

You may have read similar earlier works, but Dominic Smith’s novel is in a class of its own.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Dominic Smith, Farrar Straus & Giroux, fiction, The Last Painting of Sara De Vos

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