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...died in early January of this year at 73. Denise Newman’s translation of “Azorno,” released in January, marked the first time since its publication in the late 1960s that the novel has been available in English, and while the book??s experimental nature makes its absence rather unsurprising, the arrival of its 105 pages is long overdue.To crystallize the plot of “Azorno” is to reduce the atmosphere that makes it beautiful and in which its quavering logic (and, in turns, illogic) dwells. Who does...
...believe every great book begins with a community,” LaFarge said. “There is a component of oral history that makes [“Harvard Square”] more than just an art book.” LaFarge said he quickly saw the book??s broad appeal. The Coop’s General Merchandise Manager Nancie E. Scheirer said she has seen tourists, locals, students, and parents purchasing the book. “We love it when we have books that are relevant to the community. We really believe it will sell...
...convened the conversation.” The book, a compendium of essays from leading Jewish and non-Jewish academics on topics ranging from masturbation to modesty, was published in June by New York University Press. Yet despite the academic credentials of the authors who penned most of the book??s essays, Ruttenberg said that she designed The Passionate Torah with “the intelligent lay reader in mind.” “The whole idea is that smart people are capable of dealing with big questions,” she said...
...recalls alongside them. The memories that tie themselves to his mother’s death, his time in a children’s home, and his father’s remarriage are mostly grim—young, scarred legs and bodily worms abound. But his frankness, perhaps the book??s most noteworthy quality, permits the often-comic process of learning to temper the bleak surroundings he sometimes faces. We watch his evolution through adolescence, transmitted in extremely spare formulations that one hesitates to call prose. It might be a good time to again call attention to the title...
...believe. After Bolaño received the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (Latin American fiction’s most coveted award) for his first major novel, “The Savage Detectives,” in 1999, the Spanish-speaking literary world had already canonized him. It took that book??s release in English in 2007 (translated by Natasha Wimmer for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, four years after Bolaño’s death due to liver failure) and the rumor of his posthumous final masterpiece, “2666,” to do as much...