New Yorker: My Sad Dead by Mariana Enriquez
In the February 13/20 2023 issue of The New Yorker. An older woman lives in a declining...
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Author: Dennis Haritou
Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag
John Kaag, in Hiking with Nietzsche, his account of tracing Nietzsche’s legendary sojourns in the...
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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 class in...
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
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 instead...
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Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
Audrey Schulman’s Theory of Bastards from inventive Europa Editions is the third of her novels...
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First Person by Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker 4 years ago. His new...
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The Diamond Setter by Moshe Sakal
I’m awed by the six years of comprehensive research that went into the composition of The Diamond...
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The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
The Sparsholt Affair is an encyclopedia of gay desire. It’s sensitive, lyrical, very English,...
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Call for 2018 Spring Submissions
Litbreak Magazine and Three Guys One Book are open for 2018 Spring Submissions....
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Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
20 years ago, Elisha, a resident of the Baghdad district of Bataween, said goodbye to her son...
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Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
Faith Fox by Jane Gardam is the perfect holiday read, even if you’re a secular person like me and...
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Mrs. Osmond by John Banville
Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, an early work, was published in book form in 1881 after being...
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
This is the third of my readings from the 2017 Man Booker longlist, including the winner, Lincoln...
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Strangler Bob by Denis Johnson
‘Strangler Bob’, in the Oct 23rd New Yorker is as perfect and satisfying a short...
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The impact of Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker, depends on the fulcrum of...
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
…Reading an old book, I find myself on a train in the 1930’s: A Selection from Rebecca West’s...
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Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi
Pereira Declares is a taut, intellectual thriller with a strong moral compass, published in 1995...
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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa
The use of an alternative name is one of the civil rights in the country of literature. Only a...
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