Melville House
As cultural critique, Curtis White’s Transcendent comes across as a modest if chilly yip of Zen resignation.
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Steve Stern’s novel about the Jewish expressionist painter Chaim Soutine is more informative than it is engaging.
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The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.
Read MoreCritic Paul Berman’s problem with the arts plays too significant a role in his work to be written off as but the tin ear of an historian and social thinker with weightier matters on his mind; his misreading of the arts is a fulcrum of his social thinking. The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul…
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