Law of Life, and Light Law of Life, and Light
A new history of Chile is a wrestling match between fatalism and optimism.
Jan 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha
A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.
Jun 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
A Child of Sleepwalkers: On Gregor von Rezzori A Child of Sleepwalkers: On Gregor von Rezzori
A novelist’s grim portrait of Central Europe between the wars.
Feb 15, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Possible Humans: On Juan José Saer Possible Humans: On Juan José Saer
The achievement of Juan José Saer’s fiction, next to its sensuousness, is its creation of an all-engulfing present.
Mar 23, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open
For Herta Müller, writing is not a matter of trusting, but rather of the honesty of the deceit.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Toad Skin? Fernando del Paso’s News From the Empire Toad Skin? Fernando del Paso’s News From the Empire
News From the Empire hacks out a sinuous, branching path that connects fantasy with fact and allegory with analysis.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing
An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture--and the plain old vulture--in us.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Fly Papers Fly Papers
An English translation of Lydie Salvayre's The Power of Flies demonstrates how this novelist and practicing psychiatrist has earned more nervous respect than love in France.
Jan 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox