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Fado
Andrzej Stasiuk, Bill Johnston
In this delightful collection of essays—by turns wry and reflective, wistful and witty—contemporary Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk turns his attention to the villages and small towns of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and his native Poland...
Bookslut
[A] delicate, deeply-shadowed book of travels through the culturally blurred hinterlands of the former Eastern Bloc.
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A Kind of Testament
Witold Gombrowicz, Alastair Hamilton
A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life's work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights.
John Updike
[Gombrowicz is] one of the profoundest of the late moderns.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Aidan Higgins
Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins—-one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce-—has chosen to wait until his sight has nearly left him to assemble this collection of visual treats . . .
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Man + Doctor
Nick Wadley
"Most of these images were drawn in the bed of a London hospital, either the Royal Free or the Princess Grace, between 2004 and 2010. The rest of the drawings are memories and afterthoughts from the same times." The wordless story of encounters . . .
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This Is Not a Tragedy
The Works of David Markson
Françoise Palleau-Papin
The very first book-length study to focus on this seminal American author, This Is Not a Tragedy reviews David Markson's entire body of work . . .
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Alix's Journal
Alix Cleo Roubaud, Jan Steyn
A collection of private notebooks kept by Canadian photographer Alix Cleo Roubaud during the last four years of her life, before her death at the age of 31.
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Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde
Charles Juliet
When Samuel Beckett and the Dutch painter Bram van Velde met in Paris in the 1930s, both were living in abject poverty, and neither could have anticipated that—on the other side of World War II and the brutal occupation of France by the Nazis—they...
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Nicholas Mosley’s Life and Art: A Biography in Six Interviews
Shiva Rahbaran
The son of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain’s Fascists in the 1930s, and himself the inheritor of a noble title, Nicholas Mosley nonetheless fought bravely for Britain during World War II, and became a tireless anti-Apartheid campaigner...
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With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows
Sandra Kalniete, Margita Gailitis
Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation—to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above...
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Paradoxes of Peace, or The Presence of Infinity
Nicholas Mosley
Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this.
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