Turning on “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto, which means “beautiful singing” in Italian, refers to the art of classical singing in...
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Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag
John Kaag, in Hiking with Nietzsche, his account of tracing Nietzsche’s legendary sojourns...
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Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
Beware of Pity is a is an astute New York Review reissue and a kind of “ghost book” from a...
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Audition by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
I was very happy to see Audition by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh in the 9/10/18 edition of The New...
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History of Violence by Edouard Louis
The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis’ fiction/creative nonfiction/memoir of growing up working...
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
In 2011, JC and I had a massive 3-part discussion of Haruki Murakami’s 624-page 1Q84. It was one...
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Obsession, Nudes from Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from The Scofield Thayer Collection
Obsession is a loaded word that smacks of some hypocritical voyeurism. It implies a pathology,...
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Kant and Hegel Humming: On Adrian Piper
Recently, I went to the Adrian Piper show at MoMA. When you are partway through the show...
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There There by Tommy Orange
There There, by Tommy Orange, is one of the must-read novels of the year. You could read...
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