Literature
The Re-Animator
A Mere Jonah
OPENING MY COPY of Tropic of Cancer to a random page, I am confronted with passages like these: “You’re cancer and delirium,” she said over the phone the other day. She’s got it now, the cancer and delirium, and soon you’ll have to pick the scabs. Her veins are bursting, I tell you, and your talk is all sawdust. No matter how much you piss away you’ll never plug up the holes. ***** READ MORE >>
The King’s Justice
Checkmate
Splendor and Wreckage
The Revolution in Feeling
AT THE END of Stanley Corngold’s introduction to this new translation of Goethe’s great novel of romantic longing, a passage from J.M. Coetzee’s Youth is adduced to prove an eighteenth-century German classic’s relevance: READ MORE >>