Yale-University-Press
Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?
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Because Mindy Aloff is so deeply personal and idiosyncratic — and so dependent on what was programmed by certain theaters, in certain years — her book distorts the very topic it is intended to illuminate.
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At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
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What we have here is the voice of one trying to navigate, endure, rise above, and somehow pacify a tapestry of cruelty and grief, while it struggles to find the words and voice that will do the work.
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David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.
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The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.
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Biographer June Cummins considers the first All-of-a-Kind Family book, published in 1951, as groundbreaking and Sydney Taylor as “one of the first writers of multicultural literature for children.”
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Book Reviews: Chronicles of Russia’s War on Ukraine — Hope Is the Thing with Teeth
Two powerufl volumes show that Ukraine’s greatest weapons against Russia are hope and unity.
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