A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Timid is not a word anyone would reach for to describe Blais’s fiction, and especially her early work, which remains as shocking and defiant today as when it first appeared.
Hammond has written a text that is frankly unclassifiable: part biography, part critical exegesis, part hipster manifesto.
“Art is a way of remembering what it is like to be alive when you may have forgotten,” says Cayley.
The risk in writing a domestic thriller with 9/11 as backdrop is that the geopolitical material comes off as a gimmick rather than an integral story element.
In his new memoir, the author contemplates his life and community in the wake of two significant figures dying within five months of each other.
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.
The book uses Grand Guignol techniques to literalize the process of tearing oneself open in the act of artistic creation.
Despite reduced foot traffic due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the company reported healthy earnings in the 13 weeks ending October 2.
The Stanford University professor surveys the literary landscape in the shadow of the online giant.
In this suite of sixteen uncanny tales, memory and loss are manifest in the spectres that haunt various characters.