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Alma Mahler and her husband, Gustav, 1909. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes you just want to read something juicy, and Cate Haste\u2019s Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler<\/em><\/a> delivers that in spades. Alma is remembered primarily as the wife and muse of three major cultural figures in fin de si\u00e8cle Vienna: the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, and the novelist and poet Franz Werfel. But Haste\u2019s biography reveals a woman with artistic ambitions of her own, sidelined in no small part because of the social expectations of the time. To be perfectly honest, though, I read this book for the gossip, of which there is plenty. Haste has a knack for capturing Alma\u2019s world in all its art house fervor. Alma\u2019s first kiss is with Klimt (she refuses his sexual advances by quoting Goethe\u2019s Faust<\/em>). During the birth of their second child, a panicking Gutav tries to soothe Alma\u2019s pains by reading Kant aloud to her (it doesn\u2019t work, unsurprisingly). Gropius and Alma exchange extremely explicit letters concerning their sexual fantasies (including possibly the most florid description of a blowjob I\u2019ve ever read). We haven\u2019t even reached the second half of the book, which includes Alma\u2019s intense, sadomasochistic affair with the Expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka (culminating in Kokoschka creating a lifelike doll of Alma and dragging it around Vienna before beheading it) as well as her dalliance with and subsequent marriage to Werfel, whom she helps escape Austria by foot in a perilous journey on the eve of World War II. Alma herself comes across as wildly unpleasant\u2014she\u2019s a monarchist and Hapsburg supporter who\u2019s constantly getting into fights with Werfel, a committed communist; she makes frequent anti-Semitic remarks despite two of her husbands and most of her closest friends being Jewish; she constantly criticizes her daughter for marrying for love (five times) instead of marrying geniuses. But Haste portrays Alma Mahler in all her whirring and feverish complexity, and the result is as engrossing as it is jaw-dropping. Read it and you, too, can know entirely too much about the sex lives of almost every major artist, composer, and writer in early-twentieth-century Vienna. \u2014Rhian Sasseen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about the character Claude McKay Love since the summer, when someone handed me an advance copy of Gabriel Bump\u2019s Everywhere You Don\u2019t Belong<\/em><\/a>, and I\u2019m glad he\u2019s finally making his debut next week. But this isn\u2019t a debutante kind of coming out: in Bump\u2019s first novel, young Claude navigates the shittiness of growing up with humor, insight, and a certain big-eyed vulnerability that\u2019ll have you rooting for him through thick and thin\u2014even when it\u2019s Claude who has skated himself out onto the thinnest ice. You live and learn, the adage goes, and over the course of Claude\u2019s trials, he goes from an awkward kid to a young man who knows a thing or three about the human he wants to become. It\u2019s classic bildungsroman, made better by a lot of love for warts-and-all Chicago, and I see dashes of Percival Everett in Bump\u2019s deadpan, how his characters cross the stage with a sashay (and sometimes more). Welcome, Claude! We\u2019re glad you\u2019re here. \u2014Emily Nemens<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Christian Wiman.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Since the release of Hannah Sullivan\u2019s Three Poems<\/em> earlier this month, I\u2019ve been eager for more new poetry from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. So I was delighted to discover Christian Wiman\u2019s collection Survival Is a Style<\/em><\/a>, which, like Sullivan\u2019s, is frank and modest, capturing the first-person experience of contemporary American life in bone-clean melodic verse. Wiman\u2019s greatest asset is his taste for simplicity, best exemplified by \u201cEating Grapes Downward.\u201d Where one might expect an invocation of the muse, the opening lines are a self-deprecating tribute to writer\u2019s block: \u201cEvery morning without thinking I open\u2009\/\u2009my notebook and see if something\u2009\/\u2009might have grown in me during the night.\u2009\/\u2009Usually, no.\u201d Wiman\u2019s short poems, spoken by a singular voice, resemble a collection of Bach-like sarabands and gigues\u2014my favorite, the pairing of \u201cTwo Drinking Songs,\u201d is subtitled \u201c1. Up with a Twist<\/em>\u201d and \u201c2. Neat<\/em>.\u201d But these simple melodies are not without deep resonance and even occasional dissonance, as themes of spiritual doubt and physical illness recur throughout the book\u2019s four sections. Wiman sets his intentions in a poetic preface, writing: \u201cI need a space for unbelief to breathe.\u2009\/\u2009I need a form for failure, since it is what I have.\u201d So thoroughly charmed was I that I failed to notice I had boarded the wrong train, hopping off just before it tore out of Manhattan\u2014though I would have indeed welcomed a moment more in Wiman\u2019s musical company. \u2014Elinor Hitt<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s in his novel The Ghost Writer<\/em><\/a> that Philip Roth first introduces us to his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, the book\u2019s neurotic protagonist and the narrator of eight more novels. The Ghost Writer<\/em> is set around a meeting between Nathan, a twenty-three-year-old aspiring writer, and his idol, the accomplished writer E.\u2009I. Lonoff\u2014an ascetic devotee of craft, long married, Bellow-esque. (Of his process, he tells Nathan: \u201cI turn sentences around. That\u2019s my life \u2026 Then I have lunch.\u201d) The young Zuckerman is clearly a reflection of Roth at that age\u2014having just published his rather controversial first stories, harboring a quarrel with the Jewish community that he\u2019ll sustain in later novels. But the most bizarre part of the book has to do with Amy Bellette, Lonoff\u2019s dark-haired writing assistant and paramour. As Nathan falls further into Lonoff\u2019s rarefied world, his preoccupation with Bellette grows, and his curiosity about her identity overwhelms him. Throughout the night he spends at Lonoff\u2019s, he wonders, Could Amy Bellette be Anne Frank? The latter half of the novel is Nathan\u2019s imaginings of Frank-turned-Bellette as a detached, secular Jew like himself. He postulates what Frank\u2019s life would have been like and fantasizes about a new one for himself: a life where he\u2019s been adopted by his literary idol and is married to Anne Frank. \u2014Camille Jacobson<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been paying special attention to flower arrangements these past few years\u2014hazard of the trade, in part. But I\u2019m not the only one of my demographic who has gone to seed. All across the city, young women are leaving PR and corporate law to become florists, arranging bracken and berry and blossom in loose, wilder ways, bringing mortality into the living room. The writer Nikki Shaner-Bradford has done just this with \u201cUnfleshing<\/a>,\u201d a bright and thorny essay on beauty and technology published in Real Life<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>this week. Shaner-Bradford seems to have carefully trimmed all my favorite questions to fit in one graceful container. With each sleek new undergarment and every successive layer of serum, are we growing closer to liberation or to divestment? Her linkages are surprisingly perfect, considering Away luggage, notable for FAA-unfriendly batteries<\/a> (now removable), and Thinx underwear, notable for creating a menstrual undergarment that has turned out to be almost certainly toxic<\/a>, and how they both cloak the human element. Her centerpiece is Uncanny Valley<\/em><\/a>, a memoir by the tech veteran Anna Wiener, which I had missed in the fray of suffering the other side effects of living in a post-tech world, such as answering email till today is tomorrow and trying to find funding for print journalism. Shaner-Bradford\u2019s sure hands are part of the work\u2019s wild beauty. We can see her twining around the very subjects she resists as she writes herself into the essay and gains an uncertain safety in foliage. \u2014Julia Berick<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nikki Shaner-Bradford.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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