André Prah and some of his artwork from “The Ice Horses of Ladoga” A couple of things related to Curzio Malaparte’s chapter in Kaputt related to the ice horses of Ladoga… André Prah “started to make his own visual representation of the tragedy. In wood from the shores of the Baltic Sea.” The quote is […]

The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte Adapted and Translated by Walter Murch Afterword by Walter Weschler (Counterpoint: Berkeley: 2012) ISBN: 978-1619020610 I’ve written about Curzio Malaparte’s World War II ‘novel’ Kaputt. While I’m waiting for my library to get a copy of the recent NYRB Classics re-release of The […]