Friday, September 27, 2019
In this remarkable and timely book, David Treuer is determined that Native American history not be seen as a “catalog of pain.”
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Five Cities is a species of psychogeography, a deep map, that weighs the effects of topography, urban environments, and monuments of the past on mood and perspective.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Farcical fight and sex scenes might be forgivable, but the “mystery” is so barely there it utterly fails to engage -- and that’s lethal to a novel in this genre.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:36PMFriday, April 19, 2019
The Ruins of Ani illuminates one of those rare places that leaves visitors feeling they might have to dust off the word mystical to describe the experience.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:11PMMonday, February 11, 2019
It’s worth pointing out that Sabahattin Ali has deliberately reversed traditional gender roles in Madonna in a Fur Coat.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
William Gass's primal loyalty was to the words composing his texts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Richard Gessner’s head is a cavern piled high with wonders—original images, fresh metaphors, mind-stretching scenarios, and alternate world orders.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
So now you know: Saddam’s fearsome weapon of mass destruction was a novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMSaturday, October 15, 2016
"Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe." -- Paul West
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMFriday, March 25, 2016
Nate Liederbach demotes plot and Aristotelian mechanics, replacing them with the acrobatics of a beer-loud voice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Fighting God is logically argued, lucid, and makes a powerful case for a more secular nation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Thanks in large part to brevity alone, the way these stories work is closer to poetry than to fiction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMThursday, January 7, 2016
Yakovlev's poems speak to the reader quietly, with assumed familiarity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Shout It Out Loudbegins as a forensic examination of KISS’s Destroyer album, but it ends up as more than a book about an album, the group, or even the metal tributary of ’70s rock.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Taken together, these entertaining early novels present a noteworthy collection—particularly for Samuel R. Delany fans.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:13PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
What John Keene has given us in Counternarratives is fearless fiction. Counternarratives by John Keene, New Directions, 320 pages, $24.95. Historical fiction is all well and good for novels,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AMMonday, November 17, 2014
American poet Paul B. Roth is keenly aware that a striking phrase can set a dream in motion.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:35PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
Ttracing his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Benjamin's biographers have used their research well.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:00AMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Throughout these superb stories, there is a certain desolation, of the heart as well as of the landscape.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17AMMonday, June 2, 2014
The omniscient narrator in Natura Morta is flawlessly neutral, allowing the images, the minimal action, and the character’s reactions to the events of this single day in a Roman square te…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:15AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Robert Olen Butler chose his protagonist wisely. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is a man of both intellect and physicality, of thought and action.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:07AMWednesday, March 19, 2014
In the superb "But where is the lamb?," James Goodman takes up the numerous ramifications, moral and otherwise, of God’s chilling command to sacrifice Isaac and Abraham’s — perhaps mor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMSaturday, December 28, 2013
"Heat" is a fictional interview in which Dickinson asks uncomfortably intimate questions and then imagines the answers Seberg might have given.
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