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Paul Rudolph\u2019s Walker Guest House, as pictured in The Florida Houses<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Don\u2019t let the breezy title put you off. At the Existentialist Caf\u00e9<\/a><\/em>, Sarah Bakewell\u2019s group portrait of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir, and the other \u201cContinental\u201d philosophers who flourished before and after World War II, is chatty, irreverent, gossipy, unabashedly personal\u2014as far from the existentialist tone as it\u2019s possible to get\u2014but it\u2019s also a work of deep intelligence and sympathy, reminding us how exciting those thinkers can be. And it\u2019s a page-turner. I was so sorry to finish the last chapter that I almost\u2014almost\u2014ran over to the Strand to see what they had by Merleau-Ponty.\u00a0\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey worked \/ They worked \/ They worked \/ and they died \/ They died broke \/ They died owing \/ They died never knowing \/ what the front entrance \/ of the first national city bank looks like.\u201d Pedro Pietri wrote \u201cPuerto Rican Obituary\u201d in 1969, after having served in Vietnam. There\u2019s no mention of that war in the poem, but there\u2019s a strong sense of futility, death, and disaffection that must have been informed by witnessing the violence of war and then coming home to unfulfilled dreams. \u201cObituary\u201d is the first poem in City Lights\u2019 new collection of the late poet\u2019s work<\/a>, much of which is otherwise only available in out-of-print or photocopied editions. I hadn\u2019t heard of Pietri before reading this collection, which is a shame because he strikes me as the Ginsberg of the post-Vietnam era\u2014combining politics, race, and the personal in performative poetry. His lines are propulsive and witty, especially in the playful \u201cTelephone Booth\u201d series, which reads like a flirtatious\u00a0midnight\u00a0conversation: \u201cbecause I do not \/ want to make \/ future generations \/ \u00a0lose sleep I \/ will do my very best \/ not to influence \/ anyone regardless \/ of what a nice ass \/ they seem to have.\u201d \u2014Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong>
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Pedro Pieti, from the cover of Selected Poems<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

The architect Paul Rudolph is best known for his 1962 Yale Art and Architecture building, a Brutalist fortress that\u2019s either a triumph or a terror, depending on whom you ask. (I\u2019m on Team Triumph, for the record.) In Sarasota, Florida, last month, I had the chance to see some of the innovative, enchanting homes Rudolph built in the fifties, all of them still radiant with postwar optimism and inventive edge. The Cocoon House, cantilevered over the water on Siesta Key, features steel straps, wall-to-wall jalousie windows, and a concave roof made of a flexible vinyl compound developed by the military; the Umbrella House has an elegant latticed sunroof spanning its length, its interiors arranged as efficiently as a ship\u2019s quarters. Admirers of the Eames Brothers or Le Corbusier should seek out Christopher Domin and Joseph King\u2019s Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses<\/a><\/em>\u2014a perfect primer, it provoked in me a lethal combination of midcentury nostalgia and real-estate envy. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Tom Hart\u2019s short comic \u201cRL,\u201d he, his wife, and their two-year-old daughter, Rosalie Lightning, flee New York after years of living \u201can early adventure full of potential and cultural stimuli and fertile friendships\u201d\u2014an adventure that brought the young couple inevitable debt and soul-crushing misery. The only bright part of their lives, and Hart\u2019s comics, is Rosalie. She\u2019s too bright, in fact; readers learn of her adorable language (bumbites<\/em> for \u201cbug bites\u201d) and her obsession with the moon. It\u2019s shocking, if retroactively obvious, when she dies one night in November. \u201cRL\u201d is just the beginning of Hart\u2019s new graphic memoir, Rosalie Lightning<\/a><\/em>. He constructs the narrative arc so well, brings you so close to his tragedy, that I believe many copies of this book are going to end up salty and warped with tears. Rosalie acts as a vehicle for powerful, universal ideas\u2014and isn\u2019t that how big parents tell us their children are in their lives? Rosalie Lightning<\/em> should come with a free box of tissue. \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A panel from Rosalie Lightning<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

I moved to New York last week, and I decided to spend my first days here reading departure narratives. Thus a return to one of my favorite short stories, Justin Taylor\u2019s \u201cSo You\u2019re Just What, Gone?<\/a>\u201d, which appeared last year in The New Yorker<\/em>. The story is a constellation of departures both concrete and abstract: it begins with sixteen-year-old Charity on a flight out of Logan Airport, and the rest takes place in her grandmother\u2019s house. The old woman has Alzheimer\u2019s\u2014the ultimate departure from sanity\u2014and Charity feels abandoned by friends who ignore her desperate text messages. (\u201cMy Grams is losing it,\u201d she sends to her crush, Evan. \u201cAll she does is clean the same clean shit. She\u2019s like bleaching bleach.\u201d) It\u2019s my favorite short of Taylor\u2019s, if only because of how deftly it explores the cruel and hysterical ways people leave us, and some of the absurd ways we tend to our loneliness. Perhaps the best part, though, is the title, which occurs to Charity when Evan stops responding to her. I love the poignant rhythm\u2014that interminable beat before the last word, the place where we can find all the people who ghost us: right on the teetering edge of gone.\u00a0\u2014Daniel Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a week ago, Orthodox Christians were celebrating Christmas, so I hope I\u2019ll be excused for sharing a belated Yuletide find. All kids from one to ninety-two can agree, I think, that there are few places more unlikely in which to find something new and fresh to enjoy than from within the pantheon of holiday music. Nevertheless, sometimes fate reaches out a hand and lets fall an oddity like Arlo Guthrie\u2019s song, \u201cThe Pause of Mr. Claus<\/a>,\u201d calling attention to the very serious political undertones of the Santa Claus myth. What is with that conspicuously red suit? And free presents, for everyone? I, for one, always thought Saint\u00a0Nick bore an uncanny resemblance to Marx. Listen to this one as you take down your Christmas tree this weekend. \u2014Robert Magella<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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