For your Sunday reading pleasure, an entry too late for our What We Read On Our Summer Vacation article . . . In the land of Mozart, three talented music students become life-long friends. One, Glenn Gould, becomes the most famous pianist of his time. Another, on realizing that his skills are not what he...
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What We Read On Our Summer Vacation
Lots of publications like to tell you what to read over your summer vacation. Instead, we’re going to tell you what we’ve read. Our writers check in to share some of their favorite moments from reading this summer, including a tight-rope walking sensation, a bigamist wife, Edward Hopper paintings that come to life, an imagined...
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Twelve Rooms of the Nile
. . . this novel imagines what might have happened during simultaneous forays among the antiquities lining the Nile River that were actually undertaken in 1850 by Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert.
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Robert Hughes
by Geoff Wichert Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, the combative art critic who all-but campaigned against the commodification of art, died Monday at the age of 74. Hughes wasn’t just another art critic; for the last thirty years, he was THE art critic . . . the only universally recognizable expert on the connection between art...
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Michael Frayn’s Skios
by Geoff Wichert From the Renaissance on, the theme of history has been expansion: the Age of Exploration carrying adventurers and map-makers to every corner of the globe; the Reformation replacing a monolithic church with religious diversity; philosophy yielding to ideology; capitalism finding the price of everything while liberating us from obligation to its value....
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Are We Well-Read?
Would you be surprised to learn that Salt Lake City is one of the “most well-read” cities in the country? And not just, like, 19th on a list of twenty, but actually in tenth place, beating out cities like Seattle and Atlanta. That was the news that came out in May when Amazon released its...
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Terry Tempest Williams’ When Women Were Birds
by Stefanie Dykes I’ve pretty much marked up every chapter with underlined passages, circled paragraphs, and left sticky notes to myself. What do I make of all this? That’s the first question I asked myself when I began reading Terry Tempest Williams’ new book, When Women Were Birds. I was going to say how much...
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Stories with Figures
Italian author Antonio Tabucchi died Sunday of cancer. Little was made of his passing in the states, though most European papers noted his achievements, and in the English-speaking world the BBC remarked on his career (Tabucchi has been a contender for the Man Booker International Prize). It’s a shame that Tabucchi is little known here,...
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Donna Poulton’s Reuben Kirkham: Pioneer Artist
A review of Donna Poulton's biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
The latest installment in our review of novels set in the art world, Shawn Rossiter reviews a novel by Argentine author Cesar Aira.
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Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel
We return to our series of reviews of novels set in the art world with Shawn Rossiter's review of Ernesto Sabato's existential classic The Tunnel.
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Novels Set in the Art World
We haven’t had time to put together our next review of art world-related novels (Jean Echenoz’s I’m Gone is on deck – look for it next week), but when we were at Salt Lake’s Main Library we noticed something interesting: on the second floor a display case advertises “Novels Set in the Art World.” We...
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W.G. Sebald’s THE EMIGRANTS
In our continuing series of book reviews of novels featuring art and artists, Shawn Rossiter reviews W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants.
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Art History Mysteries
Iain Pears' series of Art History mysteries involving characters Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano is reviewed.
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