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Susan de Sola Rodstein

Book Review: Victorian Fairy Tales—Sprites Against Realism

What seems to animate many of the fairy tales is a heady freedom from the constraints of realism.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: English, fairy tales, Michael Newton, Oxford University Press, Susan de Sola Rodstein, Victorian Fairy Tales, Victorian literature

Visual Arts/Book Review: “Drawing in Silver and Gold” — the Miracle of Metalpoint

What seems to be a constant is a feeling that it is miraculous that these works have come into being, and that they are unlike any other kind of drawing.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Hugo Chapman, Metalpoint, metalpoint drawings, Princeton University Press, silverpoint, Stacey Sell, Susan de Sola Rodstein

Fuse Book Review: The Decision Not to Have Kids — Examined and Defended

This anthology is thought-provoking and often moving; a spearhead into a relatively undiscussed new demographic.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: elective childlessness, Meghan Daum, Motherhood, non-parenting, Raising Children, Selfish Shallow and Self-Absorbed, Susan de Sola Rodstein

Book Review: “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death” — A New Language for Living with Auschwitz

Otto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”

By: Susan de Sola Rodstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Auschwitz, Harvard University Press, Holocaust, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, Otto Dov Kulka, Personal Memoir, Ralph Mandel, Reflections on Memory and Imagination, Susan de Sola Rodstein

Book Review: “The Virtues of Poetry” — Fascinating But Frustrating

James Longenbach’s ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays so often tie themselves into semantic and logical knots.

By: Susan de Sola Rodstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Graywolf, James Longenbach, Poetry, Susan de Sola Rodstein, The Virtues of Poetry

Book Review: Poet/Essayist Richard J. Fein — Yiddish as Mother Tongue and Lost Lover

“The Beginning-End of Yiddish,” is poet/essayist Richard Fein’s core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: BrickHouse Books, Poetry, Richard Fein, Susan de Sola Rodstein, Yiddish, Yiddish Genesis

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