Aleksandar Hemon’s Kaleidoscopic Fiction of War and Peace Aleksandar Hemon’s Kaleidoscopic Fiction of War and Peace
While most of his studies of dislocation were set in the present, in his new novel he examines a lost past.
Jul 10, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
I.B. Singer’s Language of Everyday Life I.B. Singer’s Language of Everyday Life
By choosing to write in Yiddish rather than Hebrew, the young Singer declared his allegiance to the here and now rather than a biblical past or a Zionist future.
Oct 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin
In Berlin Alexanderplatz, we are plunged into a cauldron of alienation, violence, and social breakdown that would deliver all of Germany into the hands of the Nazis.
Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
J.M. Coetzee’s Essential Protestantism J.M. Coetzee’s Essential Protestantism
In his last two novels, Coetzee has tried to recover the scandal and strangeness of early Christianity.
Jun 1, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination
Once reveling in the hopes and possibilities of a multicultural society, her fiction now has taken on a more despairing outlook.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch