A cultural historian discerns an epoch in a carpet hanger. The post The Last Dinosaurs: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Things That Disappear” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
« Étrangère dans l'autre moitié de sa ville, elle voit de ses yeux les vitrines de l'Ouest où le moindre besoin est comblé d'avance par une marchandise, la liberté de consommation lui faisant l'effet d'une paroi capitonnée qui coupe chacun de toute aspiration supérieure à ses besoins individuels. Ne sera-t-elle bientôt elle aussi qu'une consommatrice parmi d'autres ? » Jenny ... L’article Kairos, de Jenny Erpenbeck est apparu en premier sur Kimamori.| Kimamori
AIDAN COOPER A duck paddling in a pond is a memorial to the passage of time; winter snow doesn’t represent death nor sleep, but rather life at its most ferocious. With Cather, the world is flush with a force so powerful it can’t be predicted or contracted or even known, only guessed at and trusted in. A magic rushes from every stream, from every hog’s bark.| The Common
I’m not quite feeling my current format of titling these grouped review posts. The previous one is “Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika“. On one hand, a generic “Review of Three Books” is not helpful – I generally like to indicate the writer and title of the book under review. On […]| Kinna Reads
