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Michael Hofmann

Poetry Review: “One Lark, One Horse” — Michael Hofmann’s Comic Skepticism

Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Michael Hofmann, One Horse, One Lark, Poetry

Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction, german, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, Other Press, Peter Stamm, To the Back of Beyond, translation

Book Review: “My Marriage” — An Extraordinary Rediscovery

Despite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Jakob Wassermann, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, My Marriage, New York Review Books Classic, translation

Fuse Book Review: “Blood Brothers” — Down-and-Out in Germany’s Zero Hour

Anyone interested in understanding Europe in the 20th century, or in the fascinating metropolis that is Berlin, or in a riveting depiction of down-and-out youth who refuse to surrender to the system–will want to pick up Blood Brothers.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Blood Brothers, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, Other Press

From the Editor’s Desk: Lessons from Bertolt Brecht — and Highlights of the Week

Today’s increasingly corporate-approved theater stays within safe, civic-minded boundaries.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Editorial, Fuse News Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Michael Hofmann, political-theater, Stephen Parker

Poetry Review: The Unexpected Compassion of German Poet Gottfried Benn

A collection of poems and essays by the admired German poet Gottfried Benn, who, because of his brief association with Nazism, has been absent from our mainstream, non-specialized, English-language view of modern German poetry.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: german, Gottfried Benn, Michael Hofmann, translation

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