The value and virtue of I Belong to Vienna is that it personalizes and humanizes a global reign of terror into an understandable drama.
New Vessel Press
Book Review: “Exposed” — Between Two Incompatible Worlds
Jean-Philppe Blondel’s books are especially praised by critics for their charm and smoothly-shaped prose.
Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese
Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History
This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.
Book Review: “The Last Weynfeldt” — The Virtues of a Wry, Cosmopolitan Vibe
In this enjoyable novel, Martin Suter has chosen to sidestep depth in favor of colorful characters fine-honing their hopes and dreams..
Fuse Book Review: The Subdued Yearning of “Guys Like Me” — The Sad-Droll Prose of Dominique Fabre
Very little happens in Dominique Fabre’s books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.
Book Review: “Some Day” — A Memorable First Novel about Waiting for Love
In “Some Day,” Shemi Zarhin has masterfully woven together a tangle of bittersweet tales and elusive dreams. it is a book that is a pleasure to read and reread.
Book Review: In Pitigrilli’s Intoxicating “Cocaine,” Love is the Drug
Cocaine’s bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.
Fuse News World Book Review: “The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra” — A River of Consciousness
“The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra” is a compelling celebration of art as a force of nature, a fragile yet indomitable demand for possibility despite the constraints of a torpid existence.