RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksAs I dig into Calasso’s book, in Tim Parks’s translation, I keep being surprised, laughing out loud, texting my evangelical friends. I thought I knew the Bible, but clearly I did not ... I still don’t fully understand why his chronology proceeds the way it does, from the establishment of a reluctant monarchy, back to the forefathers, onward to Moses. But maybe this is why Calasso makes the text less familiar, alerting us that it is time to read it in a different way and to invite a different kind of experience ... Calasso’s book is, among other things, about how artists and creatives have wrestled with its often baffling content. And it is an invitation to reconsider.
