Steve Stern’s novel about the Jewish expressionist painter Chaim Soutine is more informative than it is engaging.
Melville House
Book Review: “Strange Beasts of China” — An Exuberant Chinese Fantasy
The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.
Book Review: The Life of Lou Reed — Those With No Moral Compass Beware
We learn, over and over, that the author of the song “Vicious” dispensed his legendary acts of cruelty with sadistic aplomb.
Short Fuse: Who Hates Yeats?
Critic 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 […]