David Bowie and Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Town at World’s End
How a stroll through the David Bowie exhibit at the Victoria & Albert to an auctioning of a Samuel Beckett manuscript at Sotheby’s left me at the World’s End.
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Next Day. Same Time. Same Place: How Waiting Out the Pandemic Is Like Waiting for Godot
Even though these times of self-isolating feel absurd, the Theater of the Absurd has a lot to teach us about waiting, time, isolation, and feeling like we exist.
‘The Anguish of Thought’: A Logical Line of Analysis for a Study of Madness
Regarding Evelyne Grossman’s The Anguish of Thought, Ph.D. candidates across America should lay down their pencils before they embarrass themselves.
‘Solar Bones’ Rewards Immersion
The narrator's headlong rush and gasp recalls Samuel Beckett's put-upon protagonists.
Transience Permeates the Introspective Pages in ‘Turkey Rediscovered’
Where Job scraped his sores, where Xenophon crossed the Euphrates, Krause Reichert links the stories he knows well to their terrain and traces.
Loss of Faith But Not Loss of Interest in God: ‘The Theology of Samuel Beckett’
In his publisher John Calder's view, Samuel Beckett retreats in his later texts, as did God from Genesis.