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“In Search of Now,” “Nothing Random,” “Of Loss and Lavender,” and “No Way Home.”
“John of John,” “Body Double,” “The Rolling Stones,” and “Unvaccinated Under God.”
KATJA HOYER has built a niche as the explainer of all things East German to British audiences. Her latest book, Weimar: Life on the edge of catastrophe, has received rave reviews....
TWO new titles from Broadleaf Books speaking into the cultural divisions in the United States are Richard Beck’s The Book of Love: A better way to read the Bible (£18.99 (£17.09);...
“Into the Wood Chipper,” “Transcendence for Beginners,” “Paradiso 17,” and “The Monuments of Paris.”
Guest Review- The art of almost reading
PERHAPS in French this novel is insightful about art and family psychology, but in English translation it is a clunky mélange of cardboard characters, behaving improbably and spout...
THE name of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is perhaps the first that comes to mind when thinking about German literature, certainly before the 20th century. Some regard Goethe as Germa...
In an era of algorithmic sameness, The Art of the Clash champions collected memory and orchestrated contradiction not merely for aesthetics, but as emotional infrastructure. The po...
IN THE Middle Ages, alongside the study of science, which tried to explain the workings of the universe, was a more dubious branch of learning which we call magic. This had a diffe...
COMPARISONS between 1930s Germany and developments in our own time should be made with caution. This does not mean that there are not observations that may be of interest or of use...
IT MAY at times be hard for us to believe that death can lose its sting, and yet here we are offered convincing evidence that, with patience, time, and courage, grief can bring tra...
“In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man,” “True Color,” “Half His Age,” and “Under Water.”
In “The Theater,” the journalist James Verini recounts the bombing of a performing arts space turned refugee shelter in the middle of war-torn Mariupol.
“Safe Passage,” “Cave Mountain,” “See You on the Other Side,” and “Almost Life.”
THE BLACK MONK, RRP $38. Acclaimed New Zealand author Charlotte Grimshaw’s latest work of fiction centres on a woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure. While A...
A FAR-FLUNG LIFE, RRP $38 This new novel from writer M.L. Stedman is set against the vast and timeless landscape of Western Australia. It’s described as a mesmeric tale of lives bl...
SHAKESPEARE was well versed in philosophy, because of the European, humanist education that he received at the Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School, as well as the reading that he di...
“Korean Messiah,” “Small Town Girls,” “Underlake,” and “August, September, October.”
“The Power of Life,” “How It Feels to Be Alive,” “Go Gentle,” and “Exemplary Humans.”
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