William Logan Penguin, 2017 William Logan’s classical verve conjures up the past within the present and the foreshadowings of the present within the past. In their sculptural turns, their pleasure in the glimmerings of the sublime while rummaging around in the particular, the poems in Rift of Light, Logan’s eleventh collection, are a master class […]
Ange Mlinko Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 In Distant Mandate, Ange Mlinko moves between the tormented southern landscape, with its alternately arid and flooded scrublands, and the imaginative landscapes of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbears―Orpheus, Mallarmé, Pound, Yeats, and others―Mlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the […]
Sidney Homan Purdue University Press , 2008 ISBN: 9781557534866 The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. The storyteller personalizes history, extends fable, and imparts folk wisdom. The storyteller unfolds images into a multi-layered fabric of voices and places. The storyteller raises hope. Sidney Homan is a storyteller. He tells tales of growing up in […]
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Michael Hofmann Faber & Faber, 2002 ISBN: 0571195237 Since 1980, the poet and translator Michael Hofmann has also been a prolific reviewer, and his widely published critical writings encompass a broad range of novels, poems, paintings, plays and movies. Behind the Lines brings together these dispatches from the fields of literature and art, and also includes pieces […]
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Ernst Jünger; Michael Hofmann, trans. Penguin Classics, 2004 ISBN: 0142437905 Ernst Jünger served in the German front line, fighting both the British and the French for most of World War I. Young, tough, patriotic but also disturbingly self-aware, he exulted in the war, which he saw not just as a great national struggle but – more […]
Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann, trans. Granta, 2003 ISBN: 1862076057 The Radetzky March is the story of three generations of the Trotta family. The novel opens at the battle of Solferino, when the young Lieutenant Trotta saves the life of the Emperor and is ennobled. He owes the Empire everything, and his son also becomes a conscientious servant […]
Franz Kafka; Michael Hofmann, trans. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004 ISBN-10: 0811215695 ISBN-13: 9780811215695 Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared at last has the translator it deserves. Michael Hofmann’s startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka’s great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with […]
Jill Ciment Crown, 1999 ISBN: 0517702029 The author of the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky. Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife Helene, and Finster, […]
Jill Ciment Pantheon, 2005ISBN: 0375423257 Jill Ciment’s writing has been called “luminous . . . sad, affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) and “rich in observation and insight” (Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times). Now in her new novel, her third, Jill Ciment turns her eye to a painter’s world in the early years of the twentieth […]