The Creation of Eve and A. in “What Concerns Us” – Chicago Review of Books

The Creation of Eve and A. in “What Concerns Us” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Upon returning to Nuremberg after two years in Venice, an inspired Albrecht Dürer decided to combine the Italian and Germanic styles in a study of human form. He would paint a life-size diptych depicting a male and female nude, an expansion of an engraving he had carved before embarking on his Venetian trip. He … Read more

Murders for Salvation in “Carnality” – Chicago Review of Books

Murders for Salvation in “Carnality” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Swedish writer Lina Wolff established herself as a literary master of the carnal long before releasing her latest novel, Carnality [Köttets tid (The Time of the Flesh)]. The English PEN Award-winning novel The Polyglot Lovers (2019), for instance, features a middle-aged Spanish man who moves between the bed of an octogenarian matriarch and the … Read more