KARMIC TRACES

For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journ alism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are wo rks of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe or forgotten moments in human history, erudite, politically engaged, and acerbically witty, there is no thing qu...[Llegir més]