Friday, May 31, 2024

Anthony Trollope, _The Way We Live Now_

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 TROLLOPE'S CHARACTERS USUALLY, with some exceptions, behave decorously. They have a sense of what their obligations are and attempt to ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Pierre Senges, _The Major Refutation_, trans. Jacon Siefring

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 AMAZING BOOK, BUT not easy to describe. It purports to be a scholarly polemic by Don Antonio de Guevara (1480-1545), a bishop attached to t...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

George Saunders, _Liberation Day_

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 THIS WAS THE first collection of Sunders stories that I was not sure I liked. Saunders has had from the beginning of his career a strong ve...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Madeline Gins, _The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader_, ed. Lucy Ives, Part 2

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 I SHOULD HAVE gone on to mention the other main sections of the book,  I now realize. Much of the excerpt from What the President Will Say ...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Madeline Gins, _The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader_, ed. Lucy Ives

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 MADELINE GINS (1941-2014) was an artist, architect, and writer. I had not heard of heard before coming across her name and a citation of th...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Victoria Chang, _With My Back to the World_

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 THE MOTIVATION FOR my deep dive into Victoria Chang this spring was that I was writing a review of this, her most recent book. That review ...

Victoria Chang, _The Trees Witness Everything_

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 ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN this spring's deep dive into the work of Victoria Chang. This 2022 collection is mainly devoted to waka, that i...