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Maylis de Kerangal's EASTBOUND

Nothing extra, nothing wasted, that's how good this novella is. Met the novelist and her son at the launch of the Archipelago Books translation (by Jessica Moore) in a beautiful brownstone home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 

Erich Fromm's BEYOND THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION

 "The alienated patient, in search for and in need of an idol, finds the analyst and usually endows him with the qualities of his father and mother as the two powerful persons he knew as a child. Thus the content of transference is usually related to infantile patterns while its intensity is the result of the patient's alienation. Needless to add that the transference phenomenon is not restricted to the analytic situation. It is to be found in all forms of idolization of authority figures, in political, religious, and social life." (53) "Just as our sense develop and become human senses in the process of their productive relatedness to nature, our relatedness to man, says Marx, becomes human relatedness in the act of loving. "Let us assume man to be man , and his relation to the world to be a human one. Then love can only be exchanged for love, trust for trust, etc. If you wish to enjoy art you must be an artistically inclined person; if you wish to influence

Review of Jenny Xie's THE RUPTURE TENSE

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My review of Jenny Xie's The Rupture Tense has just been published in the TLS this week. I liked the book very much, and I had a great deal of pleasure in saying so.