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10 Best Books of the Decade

Pedro Fernández wrote 4 days ago: I’ll let the book covers speak for themselves, for the time being… and then, of course, … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Lists, Literature, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac Mccarthy, Ann Patchett, zadie smith, Joseph O'Neill, Richard Russo

A Diverse Reading List

rm144 wrote 1 month ago: I looked over to my stack of books and saw that I have a very diverse reading list at the moment. I … more →

Tags: Literature, Basho, Code 2.0, Crossing to Safety, Lawrence Lessig, Nobuyuki Yuasa, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Vertigo, Wallace Stegner

In memoriam: martyrs of El Salvador2 comments

anexamen wrote 1 month ago: A certain shadow seemed to hang over the demeanors of the Jesuit priests at Our Lady of Guadalupe to … more →

Tags: El Salvador, Civil War, School of the Americas, Jesuit Martyrs, Jon Sobrino, Liberation Theology, Oscar Romero, Rutilio Grande, ignacio ellacuria

HISTORY'S BACKWATERS and BAD TRANSLATIONS

The Central Scrutinizer wrote 1 month ago: W.G.SEBALD – “AFTER NATURE” Published posthumously, this slim volume follows in th … more →

Tags: Fuzzy Burbles, A Raw Youth, After Nature, Constance Garnett, Dostoevsky, Pevear and Volkhonsky, The Adolescent, The Brothers Karamazov

WaterWomen, Bicycle Diaries & The Rings of Saturn2 comments

christian harkness wrote 2 months ago: Creative spurts come in wondrous ways. This morning I stopped by the Leon County Library to pick up  … more →

Tags: Photography, waterwomen, Documentary, fl 32625, book, Black & White, film photography, Publishing on Demand, Florida

On Memory and (Not) Forgetting

Giulia wrote 2 months ago: I recently returned to W.G. Sebald, a 20th century German author whose novel The Emigrants (Die Ausg … more →

Tags: General Musings, History, Austerlitz, "The Emigrants", deutsches historisches museum, Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Poetry on Trial

Michael Martin wrote 3 months ago: I’m building my late response to this. For now, I give you the information I discovered via Pa … more →

Tags: Kay Ryan, senator orrin hatch, poetry on trial

Marginalia, no.76

Ian Wolcott wrote 3 months ago: All moments of time have coexisted simultaneously… ~ W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz Late September bluffs i … more →

Tags: marginalia, Quotes, Eternity, Austerlitz, Endless Summer

Marginalia, no.73

Ian Wolcott wrote 4 months ago: …Sentences that resemble processions or a funeral cortege in their sheer ceremonial lavishness. ~ W. … more →

Tags: marginalia, Quotes, Books, Sir Thomas Browne, Gwen Raverat, florid-prose

A couple musts...

Christy Lochrie wrote 4 months ago: Short post — got lots on the plate — but here are a couple bits and pieces worth sharing … more →

Tags: butterflies, Conversation, Art, Books, film, memoir, wild strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, the rings of saturn

FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY

The Central Scrutinizer wrote 4 months ago: W.G.SEBALD – “THE RINGS OF SATURN” (1995) UK-based German writer W.G.Sebald produc … more →

Tags: Fuzzy Burbles, taiping rebellion, belgian congo, Jasenovac, Ustasha, Lowestoft, Jorge Luis Borges, Saturn, Rings of Saturn

Book 963 W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz

deucekindred wrote 5 months ago: This was the first time I’ve attempted W.G. Sebald and I have to admit I was disappointed. At … more →

A new website

vebahood wrote 5 months ago: Lviv, Ukraine 2003 © Velibor Božović I photograph  “…in the hope, that time will not pass away, has … more →

Tags: Literature, Photography, Reading, Street, Lviv, Books

Café Lives

mackenz wrote 6 months ago: A recent review in The New Yorker by James Wood begins with a set piece of sly provocation: Sometime … more →

Tags: Columns, James Wood, Philip Roth, V S Naipaul, The New Yorker, Cafe, Cafés, Brooklyn, Fernando Pessoa

Reading Austerlitz again1 comment

vebahood wrote 9 months ago: Memory One, Montreal 2009 © Velibor Božović Perhaps it is in books where all moments in time co-exis … more →

Tags: Literature, Photography, Reading, Books

After Light

bunyanth wrote 1 year ago: “And on the other end of the spectrum, there is the AFTER LIGHT, a light of the past, which are echo … more →

Tags: quotation, after light, pablo helguera

On Any Given Sunday...

petebyrne wrote 1 year ago:   Once again, I find my mind confused and unsettled. It’s a condition that seems to occur almost eve … more →

Tags: The Culture, Books, Add new tag, New York Times, book review section, daniel gates, Philip Roth, 1959, Defender of the Faith

W. G. Sebald1 comment

petebyrne wrote 1 year ago: A decade or more ago when I first came across the reviews of W. G. Sebald’s (1944 – 2001), “The Emig … more →

Tags: Books

Despatches

Dave Lovely wrote 2 years ago: The Mole – The official blog of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. The Xenotext Experiment: An I … more →

Tags: despatches, journals, Christian Bok, Friedrich Nietzsche


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