"Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of De Quincey’s early nineteenth- ..."
Love in Vain Selected Stories by Federigo Tozzi, MinnaProctor Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2001 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1471-1, ISBN: 0-8112-1471-0
"Love in Vain: Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi is the debut short-story collection in English of one of Italy's most distinguished early modern writers. The twenty stories of Love in Vain were selected and translated by Minna Proctor, who received the 1998 PEN/Renato Poggioli Award for her then unpublished renderings of Tozzi's fiction. "The investigation of naturalism, of truth," writes Proctor in her biographical introduction, "defi ..."
"The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review) At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence―an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge―created by the departure of a family’s wayward only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes lette ..."
"An enlightened, spirited exchange that will resonate with believers and nonbelievers alike.One is the beloved author of The Name of the Rose, a celebrated scholar, philosopher, and self-declared secularist; the other is a preeminent clergyman and a respected expert on the New Testament. In this intellectually stimulating dialogue, often adversarial but always amicable, these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, ..."
""Trenchant in its critical analysis, absorbing and sympathetic in its account of his private life, Kezich's Fellini is a revelation. It effaces virtually everything written to date about the Italian maestro . . . This engrossing biography mirrors its subject. It's affectionate, garrulous and often rambling, and in sudden flashes of brilliance it offers a penetrating view of Fellini's life and art." --Peter Cowie, The Nation"Few writers ..."
"A best-seller in Italy, where it sparked intense debate, Simona Vinci's first novel was awarded the prestigious Elsa Morante Prize and subsequently was acquired by publishers around the world. Clearly an accomplished and important book, it is also a profoundly disturbing one.In a suburb of Bologna, three boys and two girls--ranging in age from ten to fifteen--enter the season of long summer days and the mysterious beauty of the cornfiel ..."
"America's premiere literary quarterly explores themes of pretense, intelligence, creativity, new mechanisms for emotional and artistic thought. There are poems, stories, essays, crimes, harassment, mortuary science, and ham. Read curiously. Read bravely. Read more."
"Read remarkable new fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversations about literature in the Winter 2011 issue of The Literary Review, publishing international work quarterly since 1957. Refrigerator Mothers looks at the completely incomprehensible psychological archetypes and staggered creative momentum of motherhood, as well as outdated theories of psychosis."
"For a brief moment in 1940, the lives of a young Spanish militant and a reclusive academic of German and Jewish heritage are thrown together. Along with thousands of others across Europe, both men have fled their homeland in the face of fascist persecution. Yet, until the day their paths converge on a remote mountain pass between France and Spain, their experience of war has been vastly different. Based on true events of Benjamin's life ..."
"A lively and authoritative journey into the world of a cinema master With the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens in 1963, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich has written the work by which all other biographies of the filmmaker are sure to be measured. In this moving and intimately ..."
"Umberto Eco is a famous scholar-novelist, and Cardinal Martini is a famous scholar-bishop. Eco is an urbane ex-Catholic. Cardinal Martini is an urbane prince of the Church. Belief or Nonbelief?, a little book of eight chapters, is a dialogue between them, first published by an Italian newspaper. Each author writes four alternating chapters addressing the hopes of humanity at the dawn of a new millennium, the question of the beginning of ..."
"A different kind of tribute to a writer we love. John Le Carre novels are the literary equivalent of a great heist movie sophisticated, real world, overpopulated with anti-heroes who live or die by the puzzle. They have intrigue, treachery, politics, drinking, smoking, exotic locations, rambling plots, spies, double agents... all the sorts of stuff you never find in a literary magazine. The mystery is: What will you find in this issue o ..."
"Read remarkable fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversation about literature in the Summer 2010 issue of The Literary Review, an international quarterly publishing astonishing writing since the middle of the last century. The Worst Team Money Could Buy features dreadful tales of hapless efforts, vexed ambitions, and impossible odds. Prosthetic legs, hot wings, spontaneous combustion, doppelgangers, spam, incest, the economy, ..."
"Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, As Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone."
"American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years, when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new music, Beardslee became the go-to girl for twelve-tone music in New York City. She was the first American singer to build a repertoire perf ..."
Do You Hear What I Hear? An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Calling by MinnaProctor 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-4406-2683-8, ISBN: 1-4406-2683-9
"8 Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, edited and translated by Joseph N.
Tylenda, S. J. (New York: Vintage Spiritual Classics, 1998), 95. 9 Thomas à
Kempis, 7. 10 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York:
Viking ..."
Landslide True Stories by Minna Zallman Proctor Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Catapult ISBN-13: 978-1-936787-61-6, ISBN: 1-936787-61-X
"“Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open-hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjects―grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things―are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. A swift, compelling read.” ―Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone Minna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a captivating collection of interconnecte ..."
"Retreat and regroup; hide, wait, watch, plan your next move. Stay alive. Fight or flight leads directly into the heart of the literary nervous system. Captivating work from Tanya Jacob Knox, Dylan Landis, Ashraf Zaghal, Idra Novey, Ed Taylor... Just to name a few. We hope you enjoy this issue and that, in some way, it brings out the fight in you. What will you find in this issue of TLR? Everything you didn't know you should read. TLR: R ..."