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"Chateaubriand’s life was, as he says of Récamier’s, 'at once so impressive and so secluded.'”
Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), translated by Alex Andriesse.
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Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), translated by Alex Andriesse.
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815–1830
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815–1830 By François-René de Chateaubriand Translated by Alex Andriesse New York Review Books. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Byrd One of my favorite passages in Baudelaire’…
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December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"Chateaubriand’s life was, as he says of Récamier’s, 'at once so impressive and so secluded.'”
Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), translated by Alex Andriesse.
ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/27/m...
Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), translated by Alex Andriesse.
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Never before in English translation, Marina Tsvetaeva's THE STORY OF SONECHKA "brings Russianless readers very close to Tsvetaeva in a pivotal season of creation and witness."
Eric Byrd reviews the book from Cherry Orchard Books (Academic Studies Press).
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Eric Byrd reviews the book from Cherry Orchard Books (Academic Studies Press).
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The Story of Sonechka
The Story of Sonechka By Marina Tsvetaeva Translated by I. B. Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve Cherry Orchard Books. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Byrd In November 1917 Marina Tsvetaeva and her husband Sergei …
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October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Never before in English translation, Marina Tsvetaeva's THE STORY OF SONECHKA "brings Russianless readers very close to Tsvetaeva in a pivotal season of creation and witness."
Eric Byrd reviews the book from Cherry Orchard Books (Academic Studies Press).
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Eric Byrd reviews the book from Cherry Orchard Books (Academic Studies Press).
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Buon compleanno a Fleur Jaeggy.
July 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Buon compleanno a Fleur Jaeggy.
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Peter Brooks' HENRY JAMES COMES HOME "charts a journey, clarifies an itinerary, and identifies the encounters in which a writer’s later reflections are rooted."
Eric Byrd reviews the book from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
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Eric Byrd reviews the book from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age By Peter Brooks New York Review Books. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Byrd In Henry James Comes Home Peter Brooks recreates James’s North Ame…
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June 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Peter Brooks' HENRY JAMES COMES HOME "charts a journey, clarifies an itinerary, and identifies the encounters in which a writer’s later reflections are rooted."
Eric Byrd reviews the book from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
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Eric Byrd reviews the book from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
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RIP 1940-2025. His best books, to my mind.
June 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
RIP 1940-2025. His best books, to my mind.
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We at the Review mourn the loss of Edmund White (1940-2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
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Edmund White, The Art of Fiction No. 105
“Thoreau [was] a man of some humor along with his bile.”
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June 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We at the Review mourn the loss of Edmund White (1940-2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2...
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2...
“The white male middlebrow canon”! As a teen I loved Hesse and Henry Miller but found the Beats mawkish. A related canon consists of writers whose reputations shed an attractive maudit glamor (Baudelaire, Mayakovsky), but who quickly showed they had much, much more to offer, and remain favorites.
Gateway Books | The Point Magazine
It has to start somewhere, this business of being an intellectual. Chances are, it doesn’t start well.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“The white male middlebrow canon”! As a teen I loved Hesse and Henry Miller but found the Beats mawkish. A related canon consists of writers whose reputations shed an attractive maudit glamor (Baudelaire, Mayakovsky), but who quickly showed they had much, much more to offer, and remain favorites.
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"The truth and the post-truth, properly applied, can and should be effective partners in the pursuit of a free and harmonious society."
Anthony David Vernon reviews François Noudelmann's CAN WE MAKE TRUTH GREAT AGAIN? from Max Milo Editions.
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Anthony David Vernon reviews François Noudelmann's CAN WE MAKE TRUTH GREAT AGAIN? from Max Milo Editions.
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Can We Make Truth Great Again?
Can We Make Truth Great Again? By François Noudelmann Translated by Stephen Twilley Max Milo Editions. 2025. Reviewed by Anthony David Vernon Call it misinformation, disinformation, or “fake news”:…
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May 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The truth and the post-truth, properly applied, can and should be effective partners in the pursuit of a free and harmonious society."
Anthony David Vernon reviews François Noudelmann's CAN WE MAKE TRUTH GREAT AGAIN? from Max Milo Editions.
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Anthony David Vernon reviews François Noudelmann's CAN WE MAKE TRUTH GREAT AGAIN? from Max Milo Editions.
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‘For fifty years he has been involving us in questions about cinema – what it is, what it might be, whether it matters. Above all, he has insisted on beauty, and his films have us wondering whether beauty is truth or a trick.’
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson · Cool Tricking: Terrence Malick melts away
Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
‘For fifty years he has been involving us in questions about cinema – what it is, what it might be, whether it matters. Above all, he has insisted on beauty, and his films have us wondering whether beauty is truth or a trick.’
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Social media bumper sticker: READ GUY DAVENPORT!
On Guy Davenport - 3 Quarks Daily
by Eric Byrd
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May 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Social media bumper sticker: READ GUY DAVENPORT!
“The doctorate was also a good pretext for going to London. Mornings in the British Library and afternoons in the Warburg Institute. Or the opposite. An ideal life.”
May 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“The doctorate was also a good pretext for going to London. Mornings in the British Library and afternoons in the Warburg Institute. Or the opposite. An ideal life.”
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“I’ve learned things about writing from each of them. Auden’s penultimate rhyming, Elizabeth’s way of contradicting something she’s just said, Stevens’s odd glamorizing of philosophical terms.”
We’ve unlocked our interview with James Merrill. buff.ly/376XqQQ
We’ve unlocked our interview with James Merrill. buff.ly/376XqQQ
May 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“I’ve learned things about writing from each of them. Auden’s penultimate rhyming, Elizabeth’s way of contradicting something she’s just said, Stevens’s odd glamorizing of philosophical terms.”
We’ve unlocked our interview with James Merrill. buff.ly/376XqQQ
We’ve unlocked our interview with James Merrill. buff.ly/376XqQQ
An old essay, but Gogol has been on my mind lately, and so Dolinin too.
My Russian Professors - 3 Quarks Daily
by Eric Byrd
3quarksdaily.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
An old essay, but Gogol has been on my mind lately, and so Dolinin too.