5/28/2023 0 Comments Blowout book review![]() ![]() STRONGHOLD: One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon, by Tucker Malarkey. What they don’t yet realize is “how the pain of their wartime years will spread its tentacles … across continents and over decades.” (Simon & Schuster, 288 pp., $17.) “Beauty and violence coexist” in a universe “by turns cruel and wondrous,” our reviewer, Tash Aw, wrote of this “richly layered” novel that follows three Laotian children whom we meet in a field hospital during American bombing raids. (Norton, 272 pp., $15.95.) An author of novels, essays and memoirs who grew up next door to Trappist monks, Johnson argues that solitude, the opposite of loneliness, is essential not only to creativity (as evidenced by the outputs of 11 historic arts figures), but also to living fully, and usefully, in the world. ![]() AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY: Solitude and the Creative Life, by Fenton Johnson. ![]()
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