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