The Last Rendezvous
A select few literary greats had the privilege of loving so deeply, so intensely, that their lives were never again mundane. Inspired by her lover Henri de Latouche, a prominent... Read More
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A select few literary greats had the privilege of loving so deeply, so intensely, that their lives were never again mundane. Inspired by her lover Henri de Latouche, a prominent... Read More
Isaac’s Torah (Other Press, 978-1-59051-245-6) is a very funny book about very sad events. Isaac Blumenfeld suffers at the hands of the Nazis, loses his entire family when his... Read More
Mind Menders. Why does it matter that Freud went to Putnam’s camp in 1909 during his only visit to the U.S.? “History offers any number of poignant, unlikely conjunctions of... Read More
In the story “Words and Rags,” writes one editor, “Our dialect has the sounds of intimacy, the sounds of an enclosed hermetically sealed world.” In this collection of... Read More
“ ’There is no “world,” said Charlotte, wiping her face with her wrist. ‘There’s just a bunch of separate people.’” Coming from a woman who has recently married,... Read More
Fifteen abortions in as many years would indeed make motherhood seem to be an impossible dream, yet Irene Vilar is now married and, in spite of medical predictions to the... Read More
How rare are unflinching acts of self-reflexivity. “Eric had once commented on how closely I listened to him. Enough to steal a piece of his soul,” ends one of the essays in... Read More
Reality, wrote the American poet Wallace Stevens, “is things as they are.” That may be true in Western fiction, but what is really real in Beijing? The dozen stories that... Read More
Ahhhhh, the olden days, back when everyone was, like the narrator of this novel, clueless. Susannah, or Susie-Q, as her lover calls her when he’s drunk, is a twenty-year-old... Read More
Every law student learns quickly that neither the United States nor any other country has legal authority over foreign powers or their citizens. The United Nations is an... Read More
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