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Book Review: “Difficult Light” — Words Are Amazing Things

A supple, evocative novel that meditates on family and loss and art.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursac Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrea Rosenberg, Archipelago Press, Difficult Light, Ellen-Elias-Bursac, Tomás González, translation

Book Review: “The Family Clause” — Tribulations of a Family with No Name

Jonas Hassen Khemiri does little in The Family Clause to put his own spin on the usual domestic showdown of repression versus dreams of liberation.

By: Landry Harlan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Swedish, The Family Clause, translation

Book Review: “The Turncoat” and “Marrow and Bone” — Two Revealing Looks at World War II

For each of these major, prize-honored writers — Siegfried Lenz and Walter Kempowski– birth = destiny = art.

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Kai Maristed, Marrow and Bone, Sigfried Lenz, The Turncoat, translation, Walter Kempowski

Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

By: J. Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Columbia University Press, J Kates, Necropolis, Russian, translation, Vladislav Khodasevich

Book Review: Ilan Stavans — Literature as Resistance

Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ilan Stavans, On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language, SUNY Press, translation

Book Review: “Interior” — The Thing-as-Himself

Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: french fiction, Interior, Jeffrey Zuckerman, Lucas Spiro, Thomas Clerc, translation

Book Review: “Time of Gratitude” — The Quiet Happiness of Being Unnecessary

Russian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Gennady Aygi, New Directions Press, Russian poetry, Time of Gratitude, translation

Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction, german, Kai Maristed, Michael Hofmann, Other Press, Peter Stamm, To the Back of Beyond, translation

Book Interview: Thomas Kitson on a Neglected Gem of Russian Modernism

Iliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, World Books Tagged: Iliazd, Lucas Spiro, modernism, Rapture, Russian literature, Thomas Kitson, translation

Book Review: “Rapture” — Modernism, Daredevil Style

Rapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, Futurism, Iliazd, Lucas Spiro, Rapture, Russian literature, Thomas J. Kitson, translation

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