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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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