The Beauty of Imperfection
Irina Dumitrescu appreciates "Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend" by Bonnie Kemske.
Irina Dumitrescu is a professor of medieval English literature at the University of Bonn and currently a Visiting Public Humanities Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute in Toronto. She is the author of The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge, 2018), and has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Yale Review, Southwest Review, Aeon, The Atlantic, Politico Europe, and The Washington Post. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays 2016, Best Food Writing 2017, Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing, and Longreads. Her work can be found at irinadumitrescu.com.
Irina Dumitrescu appreciates "Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend" by Bonnie Kemske.
A funny, fast, and gripping novel filled with observations of Bosnian society that are both tender and incisive.
Irina Dumitrescu studies "The Art of Solitude," the recently published book by Stephen Batchelor.
Irina Dumitrescu reflects on Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir.”
“Call Me Zebra” is a filthy love note to literature unabashedly luxuriating in its bookishness.