The art of fasting
An adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” will be staged at The Red Room July 16-18.
An adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” will be staged at The Red Room July 16-18.
Levi Stahl, impressed with John Crowley’s World War II-era novel, Four Freedoms, calls it “an elegy for an America that never quite was.”
Newton and the Counterfeiter examines Isaac Newton’s late-life gig as a criminal investigator. (Via.)
George Ducker praises John Barth’s very funny 1957 novel The Floating Opera. (Via; see also.)
Today at The Second Pass, Emma Garman returns to Françoise Mallet-Joris’ The Illusionist and Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse, two compelling and remarkably amoral novels narrated — and written — by teenage girls in the middle of the last century. The Illusionist centers on the protagonist’s affair with her father’s mistress, while Bonjour Tristesse involves the heroine’s “plan of sexual deception . . .