Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. READ MORE >>
Genocide and the Fine Arts
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir By Claude Lanzmann Translated by Frank Wynne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
Visionary Materialism
Illuminations By Arthur Rimbaud Translated by John Ashbery (W.W. Norton, 167 pp., $24.95) I. READ MORE >>
My Novel, My Novel
Mourning Diary By Roland Barthes Translated by Richard Howard (Hill and Wang, 261 pp., $25) The Preparation of the Novel By Roland Barthes Translated by Kate Briggs (Columbia University Press, 463 pp., $29.50) I. In retrospect, Roland Barthes once observed, his career as an intellectual began with the modest aim of revolution: READ MORE >>
The Animator
Charles Dickens Michael Slater Yale University Press, 696 pp., $35 I. READ MORE >>
