Sunday, March 27, 2016

Darryl Pinckney, _Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy_

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AS SOMEONE WHO appreciated and admired High Cotton (1992), I am looking forward to picking up Black Deutschland , but in the nearer term it...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Michael Knight, _The Typist_

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THIS IS THE first work by Michael Knight I have read, and I enjoyed it--a short, deft novel set in occupied Japan. A historical novel, then,...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Jhumpa Lahiri, _The Lowland_

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FINISHED THIS JUST as her book about deciding to write in Italian started getting attention, and wondered whether the change in language mea...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Judith Rich Harris, _No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality_

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HARRIS BEGINS HER book with the story of conjoined Iranian twins who decide to undergo a very dangerous operation--tragically, they do not s...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Sybille Bedford, _A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico_

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THE VAGUE INTENTION to read Sybille Bedford one day formed for me after reading an essay on her by Hilary Mantel, I think it was, an impress...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

G. C. Waldrep, _Testament_

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TRUTH TO TELL, I read Adorno's Noise because it is one of the three texts (the others being Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip and...

Carla Harryman, _Adorno's Noise_

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IN THE BACK of my mind, I kept thinking this was part of a series that also included Alice Notley's Grave of Light and Richard Greenfiel...