It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their drama, but...więcej »
Today we diagnose extreme fantasies as a trait of the unconscious human mind. Prior to the 1990s, we might have echoed the physical symptoms of TB in Mann's sanatorium, which offered mountain ai...więcej »
Alec feels that everything-his past, the rudiments of civil society, the country itself-have slipped away and now he needs to make some sense of things, and finally do something. Alec Carton, a ...więcej »
A beautiful novel that illuminates the fraught lives of Egyptian immigrants with a witty soulful sympathy. Plasatis conjures up a harsh radiant world in which many are adrift and terra firm...więcej »
The master hovers over us, and the sound of stirred liquids floats in the hermetic air. I smell chimney soot, spring water, the urine of a child, alcohol, beeswax, oil; all coming together in th...więcej »
questions crossabout balancewithin the general nature of musicthe wind soundsmoans on the same pitchleaves scrape acrossa feeling Webster didn't knowwięcej »
Ire Land is a formally inventive novel in which the borders between human and animal, dream and reality and art film might dissolve. A novel that both engages with theory and laughs at its insuf...więcej »