Book Review: “Soul Mountain” by Gao Xingjian
More a survey of China than the exhausting search for the Self, what will remain is some of the most beautiful prose I’ve encountered.
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Book review: “Spies” by Marcel Beyer
A poet, Marcel Beyer’s prose lyrically paints what the children invent, since they cannot see the insides and outsides of the tragic love story that uncovers why they have dark eyes.
Read MoreGloria Arieira’s Yoga sutras of Patañjali
“The Yoga Sutras?” I laughed, “Why read them when there is the Bhagavadgita?” I had never imagined I would translate them the way I had done for the Gita.
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