by Bondo Wyszpolski This is a story about a shop that’s closed and a store owner who’s retired, but of course there’s more to it than that. Both the man and the…
From Caracas with love “Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978,” ed. by Idurre Alonso (Getty Publications, $275 pp, $60), in connection with the…
Reality check by Bondo Wyszpolski “The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality,” by William Egginton (Pantheon, 338 pp…
“Disruptions,” by Steven Millhauser (Alfred A. Knopf, 270 pp, $28) by Bondo Wyszpolski Back in 2002, Jennifer Howard of the Washington Post Book Club wrote that…