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Cormac McCarthy will publish two new novels; Alan Moore, the author of “Watchmen,” is releasing a story collection; and books from Celeste Ng, Andrew Sean Greer, Elizabeth Strout are on the way.
LETTERS TO GWEN JOHN. BY CELIA PAUL. New York Review Books, 2022. 352 pages.IF TRUTH AND ARTIFICE WERE OPPOSED, we would have no painting, no poetry, no speech, no life. Yet there is tension, undoubtable, incorrigible, a catch in the flow of perception, thought, and deed, as the dreams that live in some strange interior take shape and enter the shared reality of a work. Celia Paul, in both her painting and her writing, is a formidable guardian of her own inner life, as well as a careful chronicler of what it means to traverse a boundary that is barely perceptible, hardly there at all, and yet
Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. A new translation of Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.