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Leo Tolstoy.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThere are two basic motives living within all readers. They want to spend time in the presence of a great mind. And they want their hearts awakened.\u201d That\u2019s Steve Almond in Ecotone<\/em><\/a> on the early novels of Don DeLillo. Two other pieces kept me up late with the new issue: Jonathan Lethem on the perils of self-regard, plus a swinging little poem by Jaswinder Bolina, \u201cIn Another Version of the Afterlife,\u201d which begins, \u201cI regret some of the aftermath but none of the choices I made \/ during my tenure among the living, which must be \/ what the villain feels after being villainous.\u201d Two lines later we\u2019re lying beside matadors and pornographers \u201cgroggy and unsleeping in ornate haciendas.\u201d I don\u2019t know if my heart was awakened, but Bolina did keep me awake. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hare with Amber Eyes<\/em><\/a> is a family saga, a study in art history, and an overview of the European Jewish experience all in one. Edmund de Waal uses an inherited collection of netsuke carvings to explore the legacy of the Ephrussis, once one of Europe\u2019s most prominent Jewish families. The family stuff is great, but what I\u2019m enjoying particularly is the way the author, a prominent ceramicist, conveys the tactile. (And, incidentally, how skillfully he describes all these tiny things with a minimum of diminutives\u2014a skill in itself!)\u00a0\u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interesting juxtaposition of writing styles, I began reading Bertrand Russell\u2019s amazing\u00a0Autobiography<\/a><\/em> only to stop partway when I picked up Atlanta-based rapper T. I.\u2019s debut novel, Power & Beauty<\/a><\/em>. I can\u2019t read either of them quickly enough, and, needless to say, my heart is divided. \u2014Natalie Jacoby<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though I\u2019m not writing a novel, I\u2019ve been vaguely following The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s How to Write Fiction<\/a> series. But were I writing a novel, I\u2019d surely tack Geoff Dyer<\/a>\u2019s sublimely simple lesson\u2014that limitations, yours and everyone else\u2019s, can prove as enriching as your strengths\u2014above my work desk. \u2014Nicole Rudick <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Presence of Absence<\/em><\/a>, by Mahmoud Darwish, is a moving reflection\u2014part autobiography, part lyrical elegy\u2014on the question that has always been at the center of his work: \u201cWhat does it mean for a Palestinian to be a poet and what does it mean for a poet to be a Palestinian?\u201d This is one of Darwish\u2019s last writings, and it bears the hallmarks of his late style: uncompromising difficulty, surprise, and summation. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are the sentences I can\u2019t get out of my head from \u201cHadji Murat<\/a>.\u201d This is about ten pages from the end. Three quarters through. Just at a moment when you believe that Hadji Murat is about to do an heroic thing, he\u2019s about to wake up his men, before dawn, to prepare them for an escape by horseback. He\u2019s living among the Russians, to whom he has lately sworn loyalty. He has even fallen in love with one of their women. He doesn\u2019t actually want to betray them, he just can\u2019t let the fucking Shamil hold his family captive any longer. He has to rescue them or die trying. It\u2019s his only way to keep his whole idea of himself and the honor of his people from shattering. Politics are irrelevant. And everything that\u2019s happened so far in the story leads you to suspect that he\u2019ll do it, that he knows how to do it. But in fact within hours he\u2019ll be shot down like a dog. And this is what Tolstoy does, to signal the pivot. Two sentences. Nightingales are singing.<\/p>\n

\n

Hadji Murat was so deep in thought that he did not notice he had
tipped the jug and water was spilling from it. He shook his head at
himself and went into his room.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[Gasp!]<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so perfect, you hear it only stethoscopically, but you do hear it. He walks away from the water jug to his death.\u2014John Jeremiah Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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