Author: Dennis Haritou

Turning on “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Oct 2, 2018 | Reviews

Bel Canto, which means “beautiful singing” in Italian, refers to the art of classical singing in...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Sep 25, 2018 | Reviews

John Kaag, in Hiking with Nietzsche, his account of tracing Nietzsche’s legendary sojourns...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Sep 20, 2018 | Reviews

Beware of Pity is a is an astute New York Review reissue and a kind of “ghost book” from a...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Sep 5, 2018 | Reviews

I was very happy to see Audition by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh in the 9/10/18 edition of The New...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Aug 14, 2018 | Reviews

The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis’ fiction/creative nonfiction/memoir of growing up working...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Aug 6, 2018 | Reviews

In 2011, JC and I had a massive 3-part discussion of Haruki Murakami’s 624-page 1Q84. It was one...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Jul 24, 2018 | Reviews

Obsession is a loaded word that smacks of some hypocritical voyeurism. It implies a pathology,...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Jun 27, 2018 | Reviews

Recently, I went to the Adrian Piper show at MoMA. When you are partway through the show...

Posted by Dennis Haritou | Jun 5, 2018 | Reviews

There There, by Tommy Orange, is one of the must-read novels of the year. You could read...