Yelena Akhtiorskaya
By Yelena Akhtiorskaya
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Culture Writing Poetically About Spain and Desire
Leaving the Atocha Station By Ben Lerner Coffee House Press, 186 pages, $15 A novel by a poet differs from a mere novel: It’s a grander affair, an occasion. A reader has many expectations of “a poet’s novel”: an exceptional attention to language, singular imagery and a deeper probing into anything soul-related (certainly deeper than…
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Culture Teaching Poetry No Longer
The Poetry Lesson By Andrei Codrescu Princeton University Press, 128 pages, $19.95. Creative writing programs over the past half-century have endorsed the maxim “Write what you know,” so why don’t we have more novels about creative writing programs? Departmental meetings, thesis advisories, workshop tensions, suicidal poets, deferred student loans — the material is ripe for…
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Culture Adversary A
The Death of the Adversary: A Novel By Hans Keilson Translated by Ivo Jarosy Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 208 pages, $14.00 Comedy in a Minor Key: A Novel By Hans Keilson Translated by Damion Searls Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 144 pages, $22.00 Hans Keilson was born in Germany in 1909 to a working-class Jewish family…
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Culture Clarice Lispector: Mystical Novelist of Brazil’s New Bio
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector By Benjamin Moser Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95. Clarice Lispector was, in her own words, “guilty from birth, she who was born with the mortal sin.” She also was one of the past century’s greatest writers. Lispector’s childhood was spent in Recife, a large, poor city…
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