Literary
List of All Possible Desires (The Rainey Royal Cycle)
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This, the third of the Rainey Royal Cycle of novel-in-stories, is primarily focused on Rainey herself coming of age in New York in ...Read Review
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
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Gustav Klimt originally painted Portrait of a Lady in 1910 and retouched it in 1917. Why did Klimt modify the painting? Who was his model? ...Read Review
A Private Man
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David Fletcher commits himself to God and the Catholic priesthood for life, training in a seminary in Rome and savoring the rituals of ...Read Review
The Loch of the Bees
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Guss struggles to his feet beside Loch nan Seillean (Lake of the Bees) after a battle, with bees, messengers to the afterlife, buzzing ...Read Review
The Last Movement
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Gustav Mahler is dying in 1911. Seethaler composes the final reminiscences of a man trying to be honest with himself. He’s not very ...Read Review
Lázár
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Lajos von Lázár is born at the dawn of a new century in 1900 to Sándor von Lázár and ...Read Review
Honey in the Wound
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This sweeping family saga combines magical realism with the brutal existence of poverty, Japanese occupation, and shame over four generations of a Korean ...Read Review
The Last Movement
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Robert Seethaler’s latest work – more novella than novel – is an exquisite examination of the last few weeks in the life of Gustav ...Read Review
The End of the Vodka
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War stories rarely lack for incident, but they require a shaping intelligence to distinguish the merely dramatic from the genuinely revealing. The End ...Read Review
Stan on Guard
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In this second book of the series, 3200-year-old Hittite Ishtanu (you can call him Stan) passes his immortal life in present-day Toronto as ...Read Review
