‘Stalactites of the Past’
Marcel Proust by Adam Watt Reaktion Books. 208 pages, $16.95 THIS IS an amazing book, given its small size, standing on the backs of much weightier biographies of…More
Browsing: November-December 2013
November-December 2013
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The Lavender Bishop
Diary of a Gay Priest is one of the funniest and sanest memoirs I’ve ever read
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Exhaling in Verse
JUDY GRAHN was born in Chicago in 1940. This is just about the only ordinary thing that can be said about the self-identified working-class lesbian poet.
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A Beautiful Mind in a Toxic Time
In Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, B. Jack Copeland argues that we should not assume that Turing took his own life, because we don’t really know how he died. What matters more is …
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Creature of The Culture
The essays are grouped by subject matter—personal history, writers, iconic movie stars, artists—but autobiographical elements appear in so many that the collection is surprisingly unified.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh, Our Naked Lives, Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist, and The Daylight Gate.
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THE TITLE of the first chapter in Jorge Olivares’ study of Reinaldo Arenas—“I Scream, Therefore I Am”—is taken from Before Night Falls, which may be, for many North American readers, the only book by Arenas they know, or know of, because they’ve seen the 2000 film starring Javier Bardem. But in Becoming Reinaldo Arenas we also look at novels like …
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