The Sympathizer

Fuse Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.

Stephen Provizer September 23, 2020 at 4:58 pm on Jazz Commentary: Ornette Coleman — An Outsider Cracks the EggNo, I didn't know Coleman, although I know people who did. So, my information is second hand-although you don't say...
Sen September 23, 2020 at 2:15 pm on Jazz Commentary: Ornette Coleman — An Outsider Cracks the EggYou need to rewrite the second to last sentence in your piece because it is utter bullshit "Coleman was neither...
Gerald Peary September 23, 2020 at 10:25 am on Arts Commentary: Meditations on SeparationThanks, Steve, for such a superb, thoughtful essay-memoir. For me, the epiphany moment as a white boy growing up in...
Harvey Blume September 22, 2020 at 9:43 pm on Arts Remembrance: Critic Stanley Crouch — Jazz as a Metaphor for DemocracyWhy am I adding this? Because it stays with me and I thought it worth sharing. After [Stanley Crouch] moved...
Allen Michie September 22, 2020 at 12:51 pm on Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride’s “For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver” — A Mighty Cheery Big BandThanks, adding it to my library now!