“Speedboat” and “Pitch Dark”, by Renata Adler
I have, I admit, no idea what Renata Adler’s Speedboat is about. Really, not the foggiest. But this is a very special sort of mystification, an unqualified – maybe even…
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Menachem Kaiser
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Menachem Kaiser is a writer living between Brooklyn, NY and various eastern European countries. His work has appeared in Slate, Vogue, The Atlantic, Tablet, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a book about narrative and WW2.
A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
For those of you with literary ambitions, be warned: this book might be painful. You will read A Sense of Direction and recall your confused chasing of said ambition, all…