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Book Review: “Death by Water” — Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed

Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Death by Water, Grove-Press, Japanese fiction, Kenzaburo Oe, nobel-prize-for-literature, translation

Fuse Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature

Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Commentary, World Books Tagged: French literature, Kai Maristed, nobel-prize-for-literature, Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences

Poetry Review: Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Divided Self

Certainly part of the power of Tomas Tranströmer’s poetry resides in how, having established a jagged consciousness, he leaves us in between—in a world full of questions that are not easily resolved.

By: Daniel Bosch Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Nobel laureate, nobel-prize-for-literature, Poetry, The Deleted World, Tomas Tranströmer, translation

Short Fuse: Finally, Doris Lessing Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

Doris Lessing has always been massively and productively incorrect, and splendidly fulfills the mandate of a great writer by being so.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, Doris-Lessing, nobel-prize-for-literature, Short Fuse, the-golden-notebook

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