The Ashes that Remain: Boris Pahor's "Necropolis"
It’s absurd, but I almost feel that the tourists walking back to their cars can see the striped jacket wrapped around my shoulders and hear my wooden...
It’s absurd, but I almost feel that the tourists walking back to their cars can see the striped jacket wrapped around my shoulders and hear my wooden...
Kosztolányi is considered one of the greatest Hungarian writers, a virtuoso of style and control
The cinema has accompanied and transformed our history so thoroughly as to be inseparable from it.
All around me were Charles’s lines and poems: his deck, the shrubs and flowers, the weather and hillside, and the Pacific below were all characters.
AMONG LETTERS BY PROMINENT ARTISTS, annals by American visual artists are rare. Now comes a compelling text — the vibrant, at times frankly sexual...
The specter of forgetting has haunted every advance we have made in externalizing our memories.
The book is so unrelentingly erotic and explicit that it could, if you're not careful, cause chafing.
Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
"Yes," said a Frenchman. "We have this silly theory in France that our authors should be able to eat."
The police procedural is rich with political implications, a feature fundamental to Sjöwall and Wahlöö's literary accomplishment.
Punk’s devotees had a lot invested in how things were turning out; one’s music of choice was a territory to be defended...
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
RED-HEADED KIT CORRIGAN IS ONE of the "Corrigan Three," triplets whose birth killed their mother, and who are raised by a father, Jimmy. The three...
AT AGE SEVEN, I WAS TRAPPED in an elevator. Stuck. Forgotten. Desperate. OK. Kind of. In truth, my ordeal lasted all of a few minutes and ended...
John Dower’s Cultures of War avoids the pitfalls of doing history by analogy.
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