It blew right into the lake. Like the blackbird, Kos, in its title, Chris Gudgeon’s new novel, Song of Kosovo, suddenly took wing on me and flew. That I had left it unattended on a chaise cushion where a violent gust of wind picked up both and deposited them in the drink is a feeble explanation for what…
Modris Eksteins
Modris Eksteins is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto, author most recently of Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (Knopf, 2012).
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Modris Eksteins
Antanas Sileika has written a preposterous yet brilliant novel. Both fabulous farce and formidable fable, it is a work so ambitious that one can only laugh maniacally at its pretension while gasping at its absurdity. But that is what modern art, be it visual, aural or literary, is meant to do to us. It is an art of sensation and…