Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk
The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was once a pop-socio-psychological commonplace of American foreign-policy commentary that terrorism on behalf of political … Continue reading
Robert Pogue Harrison, Juvenescence
Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age by Robert Pogue Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have … Continue reading
More Notes Toward a Manifesto on Modern Fiction
(Continued from here.) Let me invoke again D. G. Myers’s Dizikes Rule, which says that you should avoid reading novels less than a decade old. While there is no need … Continue reading
George Steiner, In Bluebeard’s Castle
In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture by George Steiner My rating: 4 of 5 stars Steiner is a wonderful writer; his prose is rich with allusion, … Continue reading
Élisabeth Roudinesco, Lacan: In Spite of Everything
Lacan: In Spite Of Everything by Elisabeth Roudinesco My rating: 4 of 5 stars First, what is “everything”? And second, how does le maître survive in spite of it? “Everything” … Continue reading
