WILLIAM GIRALDI The Ecstatic Why we still need it In The Bacchae of Euripides, the god Dionysus shows up in the city of Thebes well disguised as an effeminate shaman. Behind him dances and...
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Workers of the World Fiction William Giraldi Vin’s bogus suicide scrawl lay pinned beneath an ashtray filled with an alp of smashed Camels—we saw it on the folding table when we entered...
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BOOK ESSAY Fugitive Truths The Fictional West of Thomas McGuane William Giraldi Cloudbursts Collected and New Stories Thomas McGuane Penguin Random House, $35, 576 pp. For the past five...
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BOOK ESSAY Holy Horror Giorgio De Maria's The Twenty Days of Turin William Giraldi At the end of 1977, something extraordinary happened in Italy: the musician and writer Giorgio De Maria...
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