Books and the Arts Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Contemporary fictions...either cloak themselves in a threadbare classicism or counter the impossibility of objectivity with the sheer accretional weight of subjectivity." @wself in @BooksandtheArts https://t.co/9usrfdhGLL

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"Cline has written a thriller about trying to get by, a summer read for the precariat." @JenLouiseWilson in Spring Books on Emma Cline's new novel The Guest (art by @HLeeMerrion) https://t.co/pwHgQfEOyx https://t.co/RE4CMEoVpX

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In The Ghetto Within, Santiago Amigorena considers the dark shadow that the Holocaust has cast not only on Europe but also on Latin America. https://t.co/BCk8rB7pEy

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Peter Weiss's "The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body" is a book about becoming someone who writes books. The project of Weiss’s unnamed narrator is nothing less than a faithful reproduction of his entire world on the written page. https://t.co/3e1lyQ2oTQ

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"The hope reflected in Shammas’s experiment of writing a Palestinian novel in Hebrew now seems to have vanished almost entirely." Raja Shehadeh in @BooksandtheArts on Anton Shammas, the politics of language, and a new translation of Arabesques https://t.co/vMynKC7egU