Reading between the lines.

Robert Nathan’s Road of Ages.

Immanuel of Rome.

Beauty, brevity, and uncanny vulnerability.

Clarice Lispector, anti-Semitism, and Macabéa.

Shmuel the Statesman and dark side of the Golden Age.

While asserting that anti-Semitic persecutions usually don’t go too badly for the Jews.

Two new books shed light on Bruno Schulz, and his final work.

Kantika.

“Even his kvetching shows a certain originality of perception.”

Malines.

Grigory Kanovich, 1929–1923.

A new translation of “In the Basement.”