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Fuse Book Review: “The Infatuations” — Funereal Ruminations on a Murder

Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Javier-Marias, Spanish-literature, The Infatuations, translation

The Annual Arts Fuse Holiday Gift Roundup — Tips from the Experts

With gift season comes the existential quandary: What to give the culture lovers on your list? This season the writers for The Arts Fuse waylay the crisis by recommending items that will delight the heart and stimulate the mind. Please feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section. Keep in mind that […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Film, Music, Theater Tagged: Art Spielgelman, Belle and Sebastian, BosTix, film poster, H. L. Mencken, holiday gifts, Ipod touch, Javier-Marias, Library-of-America, Lynd Ward, Playbill binder, Your Face Tomorrow

World Books: International Reads for the Holidays

Because of my gig at WGBH’s The World I read works in translation when I have the chance. Here’s an idiosyncratic round-up of first-rate literary stocking stuffers from around the globe. By Bill Marx Some of my favorite books from around the world this year raise the thorny issue of the relationship between literature new […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: “Orlando Furioso, Claude Hagège, David Bergelson, David Slavitt, Dostoevsky: A Writer in his Time, Gerard de Nerval, Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, Ingar Sletten Kolloen, Javier-Marias, Joseph Frank, Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter, Memories of the Future, Nasume Sōseki, On the Life and Death of Languages, Shadow and Farewell, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, The End of Everything, The Salt Smugglers, the-golden-calf, Theory of Language and Other Critical Writings, Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, Wojciech Jagielski, Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, Your Face Tomorrow Volume Three: Poison

Cosmic Cloak and Dagger

Spanish literary phenomenon Javier Marias has come up with a spy novel that is more concerned with a theoretical investigation of truth, trust, and betrayal than with cloak and dagger spying.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Javier-Marias, Spanish-literature

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