Thursday, October 15, 2009

JAMES WOOD and HAROLD BRODKEY

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---To write of Harold Brodkey is to speak of the dead and I fear of the really dead in the sense that he is now a forgotten writer... and s...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

WHY DOESN'T THE UNITED STATES HAVE A GREAT WRITER at the present moment?

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Nobel Prize season and again we have been spared the sad spectacle of a Joyce Carol Oates or a Philip Roth or a Don DeLillo getting the Nobe...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

HOMAGE TO HERTA MUELLER from 1996

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I published the following review of THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS in The Washington Times on November 17, 1996. It was one of very few reviews th...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

DID SCHEHERAZADE'S VAGINA LUBRICATE AT THE...

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The other night Denis Donoghue was over for dinner and the unspoken or the unsaid was talked about. When he was growing up in Northern Irel...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

ERASING ERASURE HORROR MURDERING MURDER in books and in Estonia

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(including a first short homage to Juan Jose Saer) This entry did not begin with what now comes first but instead began with “Five” an...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

INTO AMERICA: on the not reading of IMPERIAL by WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

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Going into America. Have you noticed that the reviews of William T. Vollmann's IMPERIAL have appeared and almost to a word they have be...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

BRECHT AT NIGHT:How Estonia takes up residence in the mind

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BRECHT AT NIGHT MATI UNT Translated from the Estonian By Eric Dickens Dalket Archive: 208pp., $13.95 In 1940, Helsinki received an un...