Young Lords and Their Traces - by Santi Ruiz

Capsule reviews: Ernst Jünger, Theaster Gates, Global Development

A View of Lake Constance, Willy Schlobach. Lake Constance gave Jünger the setting for his novel. On The Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger, translated from the German by Tess Lewis, introduction by Jessi Jezewska Stevens, afterword by Maurice Blanchot NYRB, 144 pp, $10.47 I haven’t quite found the words yet, but this will be one of my favorite books of the year. It’s a dream of an allegory, something like Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, with that same kind of radiant truer-than-true brilliance. Translator Tess Lewis, in another essay, taught me the German word Wortschatz, or word-hoard. Marble…

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