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Fast and Furioso
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap, 688 pages, $39.95 n Profane, urbane, jocose and headlong, Ariosto’s poem Orlando Furioso is...
Air on the Side of Prudence
I think that I am suffering From post-neurotic stress disorder A random thought? an ordered world? or either other?Seated at the table with Oedipus and Isaac, The conversation turned...
The Book of Splendor
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1 translated by Daniel C. Matt Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95. DANIEL MATT’S LANDMARK translation of the Zohar from the original tongues into...