History Is Happening: On Edmund de Waal’s “Letters to Camondo”
An epistolary biography of a midcentury French businessman and patron of the arts.
A former professor of English, Jake Fuchs has written scholarly books, short fiction, two satiric mysteries, Death of a Dad and Death of a Prof, a send-up of academe, Welcome, Scholar, and the semi-autobiographical novel Conrad in Beverly Hills. The son of Daniel Fuchs, the novelist and screenwriter, he lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Freya.
An epistolary biography of a midcentury French businessman and patron of the arts.
A new book about the impact of literary censorship in the long 18th century.
Jake Fuchs relishes the grim wit of “Last Pages” by Oscar Mandel while pondering whether its author is "essentially cheerful."
Leo Damrosch’s new book paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century “Literary Club.”
Jake Fuchs reviews “John Milton’s The Book of Elegies,” translated from the Latin by A. M. Juster.
Jake Fuchs reviews “The Politics of Parody,” a literary analysis of British satirical prints by David Francis Taylor.