Articles written by Leah Cave
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Art as Repose
It is necessary, at times, to accept the quiet empathy and suggestibility of certain works of art and manage them accordingly.
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Franny and Zooey
The disparate elements of intellectualism and religiosity coalesce gracefully in this exploration of modern American culture, its incongruities and possibilities.
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The Body Artist
The Body Artist starkly details the loss of a partner and the assiduous attempt to recollect, to retrieve what is missing, through whatever means possible.
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Big Sur
In this, one of his final novels, Jack Kerouac confronts the dualities of pessimism and optimism, attempting to locate the tangible mid-ground
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Black Spring
Ever transcending the political doom of the thirties in continental Europe, Miller delivers his characteristically ecstatic appreciation of creativity and life in general
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Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell's real-life experiences of poverty serve both as a sharp journalistic inquiry into its nature and an empathetic sketch of its oft-sentimentalized face
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The Fat Man in History
Peter Carey invokes dreamscapes, mythology and surrealism in order to provide startling clarity of vision, both commenting on and reflecting the nature of modern society
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The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers poetic elucidation on the desire for and constant renewal of membership in the world through the eyes of a yearning pre-adolescent
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
With clarity and candor Warhol leads us into the foundations of Pop Art's egalitarian stance while also revealing the individual artist that is Andy Warhol.
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Percival Everett's 'Glyph'
Percival Everett sets his infant prodigy on a fevered journey from lofty intelligentsia and academia towards wisdom, truth and maybe even purity
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