The New Republic on Religion and Mourning
cramming papers and finals. . . .
Some excellent reviews here and here in this week's The New Republic. If there's a James Wood fandom club I will join. And Rochelle Gurstein is right on in her critique of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. I remember reading the initial excerpt in the NYT magazine last year and feeling the cold, forced distance that Gurstein describes so well. I've never read Donald Hall, but I intend to, now. Gurstein makes some interesting points with Hall too, re art and how artists reveal what should, ostensibly, remain hidden and then call the revelation 'art' when perhaps it is nothing more than the shock value of being shown that which was never meant for our eyes. Art as voyeurism. . . .
Back to work. . .
Some excellent reviews here and here in this week's The New Republic. If there's a James Wood fandom club I will join. And Rochelle Gurstein is right on in her critique of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. I remember reading the initial excerpt in the NYT magazine last year and feeling the cold, forced distance that Gurstein describes so well. I've never read Donald Hall, but I intend to, now. Gurstein makes some interesting points with Hall too, re art and how artists reveal what should, ostensibly, remain hidden and then call the revelation 'art' when perhaps it is nothing more than the shock value of being shown that which was never meant for our eyes. Art as voyeurism. . . .
Back to work. . .
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