{"id":95053,"date":"2016-02-26T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T23:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95053"},"modified":"2016-02-29T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:11:04","slug":"staff-picks-china-children-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/staff-picks-china-children-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: China, Children, Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95055\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uczu06ja4fqihhcsiskf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95055\" class=\"wp-image-95055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uczu06ja4fqihhcsiskf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uczu06ja4fqihhcsiskf.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uczu06ja4fqihhcsiskf-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Panter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Printed Matter, one of the best art bookstores on earth, recently moved into spacious new digs, which means their legion of artists\u2019 books, posters, zines, and whatnot has room to breathe. So, too, do their exhibitions\u2014great news for the current show, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.printedmatter.org\/events\/413\" target=\"_blank\">The Rozz Tox Effect<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0an astonishing survey of publications produced by Gary Panter over the past forty-four years. On view (and for sale) are issues of\u00a0<em>Slash<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Raw<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Wet<\/em>, copies of Jimbo books,\u00a0<em>Pee-Dog<\/em>\u00a0zines, a Screamers print, the stunning comic<em>\u00a0Alamo Courts<\/em>\u00a0from 1977, and much more. What makes this exhibition deeply weird is the ridiculous amount of Pee-Wee Herman ephemera Panter has culled from his own collection: lunch boxes, children\u2019s clothes, coloring books, Colorforms, suspenders, dolls, and placemats\u2014all manner of commercial objects he helped create as an extension of his role as set designer for the show. Panter\u2019s output is voluminous and kaleidoscopic, and yet I\u2019m constantly reminded how it\u2019s all of a piece, sprung from the mind of one man. \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tom Bissell\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apostle-Travels-Among-Tombs-Twelve\/dp\/0375424660\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456526439&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=tom+bissell\">Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve<\/a> <\/em>is loosely framed as a travel narrative, one in which Bissell explores the tombs and the cultural history, theological evolution, and folklore surrounding the men who shaped the Christian church. All this demands a close and curious reader, but Bissell hangs the trickier stuff on moments in his journeys, moving back to the narrative exactly when this reader felt too deep in some obscure history or another\u2014this is what\u2019s known as \u201cteaching you things you didn\u2019t know you wanted to learn.\u201d \u201cI have long believed that anyone who does not find Christianity interesting has only his of her unfamiliarity with the topic to blame,\u201d Bissell writes in the book\u2019s opening pages. As I read on, I\u2019m coming to see exactly how right he is. \u2014<strong>Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94077\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94077\" class=\"wp-image-94077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/destructionsorrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/destructionsorrow.jpg 853w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/destructionsorrow-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/destructionsorrow-768x567.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of <i>Destruction and Sorrow<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Years ago, wanting to understand China, I brought home a fat book called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Understanding-China-Economy-History-Political\/dp\/0809016516\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456525998&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=understanding+china\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding China<\/a><\/em>. Ever since, it\u2019s remained unread on a high shelf. And yet I had no trouble getting into L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Destruction-Sorrow-beneath-Heavens-Reportage\/dp\/0857423118\" target=\"_blank\">Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens<\/a><\/em>, an unlikely work of reportage from the People\u2019s Republic. (We ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/introduction-into-an-obscurity\/\" target=\"_blank\">an excerpt on the Daily<\/a> earlier this month.) Krasznahorkai\u2019s books always surprise, but I\u2019d never expected a Hungarian experimental novelist to turn out a travel memoir, much less one as wise and well observed as <em>Destruction<\/em>. In his sinuous prose\u2014and in the third person, for some reason\u2014he chronicles the grime and fog of a long bus trip to Jiuhuashan. From there, most of the book comprises interviews with Chinese poets, calligraphers, museum administrators, even garden managers, all of whom he presses curiously and at times restively in an attempt to understand their country. How, he wonders, can we square a nation full of \u201cthe world\u2019s most dispiriting glittering department stores\u201d with its rich cultural history? In his eyes, most people \u201ccelebrate the renewal of Chinese traditions in cultural monuments restored in the most dreadful and coarse ignorance, or their attention is engaged exclusively by modern life, and are altogether unconcerned with that which was, even if it has passed, their own spiritual\u00a0tradition.\u201d His journey makes for weirdly provocative reading, especially given China\u2019s outsized and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/27\/business\/international\/china-economy-yuan.html\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly shaky role on the international stage<\/a>. It helped me understand. \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Homero Aridjis\u2019\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Child-Poet-Homero-Aridjis\/dp\/0914671405\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456527825&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+child+poet\" target=\"_blank\">The Child Poet<\/a><\/em> is something of a dream memoir, composed of vignettes that Aridjis re-experienced as vivid memories in 1971, when his wife was pregnant with his daughter, Chloe. The childhood years chronicled in the book were lost to him at age eleven, when he accidentally shot himself with a shotgun his brothers had left in his bedroom\u2014an experience that inspired him to write poems. \u201cMy father always said that he was born twice,\u201d his daughter, who translated the book from the Spanish, writes in the introduction. The book celebrates not only solitude and shyness in budding artists, but also translation as a form: the memories therein were translated first from Homero\u2019s dreams into reality, and then from Spanish into English. There\u2019s another layer, too, in that the text was written first in fatherhood, then in daughterhood. My favorite passages are the ones that I imagine overwhelmed Chloe: \u201cI did things on my own. And if someone went off because I didn\u2019t show my interest, I would let that person go: their being remained within my being, in my thoughts.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<strong>Daniel Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95054\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aridjis.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95054\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95054\" class=\"wp-image-95054 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aridjis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aridjis.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aridjis-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homero Aridjis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printed Matter, one of the best art bookstores on earth, recently moved into spacious new digs, which means their legion of artists\u2019 books, posters, zines, and whatnot has room to breathe. 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