Tigris and Euphrates: The Cradle of Contemporary Short Fiction
By Book Review Issue 62
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch A FEW WEEKS AGO, I sat in my office reading Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” and came upon a line that sent me reeling back into my past: “Was there ever someone so young?” The question struck me…
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By Book Review Issue 77
Visioning the Invisible Recent Artists’ Biographies Cézanne: A Life by Alex Danchev (Pantheon, 2012) Caspar David Friedrich by Johannes Grave (Prestel, 2012) Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King (Walker & Company, 2012) T HE BIOGRAPHY is, in many ways, the most conservative of popular literary forms. It is philosophically retrograde. It presumes many…
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