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It is as if he took an old rotting book, hollowed it out, and stuffed his own weird little objects in there. The post A Little Spatial Instrument: On César Aira’s Shifting Dimensions appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
I became hyperaware of the body and its tricks The post Alpha Waves appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
the book presents the odd spectacle of a more interesting writer admiring the work of a less interesting writer. It is the complete reverse of the Sontag book The post Preparing to be Forgotten: On Philip Lopate’s “A Washington Irving Sketch Book” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
There is no arrival. All arrivals are departures. The post Not Even Wrong: An Interview with Aaron Fagan appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
We used to dream about getting a plastic ball, and now we had a real, genuine hand-stitched football. But we were too scared to even show it off. The post from “Gabor” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
An impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision... The post One Misfortune After Another: On W. G. Sebald’s “Silent Catastrophes” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
In Generation X, the characters draw close to each other through telling stories. In Burnside, the stories have been replaced by rumors. The post Blithe Denial: On Devyn Defoe’s “Burnside” and Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
dissolving each muscle fiber into a smooth, concordant waveform The post Two Poems appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
History is irreversibly written as a laceration upon the body The post On the Ingeborg Bachmann Centennial: Economy, Law, Poem appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
The snapshots that Morrison leaves us with are meant to be uploaded, envisioned. Afeterimages of bright lights and collisions of verse. The post Snapshots: A Toni Morrison Comic appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books .
