Daniel James Sundahl

Latest by Daniel James Sundahl in Chronicles

• Reviews

  May 2016

  Easy Sell

  Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer, H.W. Brands, in "Reagan: The Life", describes the 40th president as a conservative Franklin Roosevelt. What Roosevelt was to the “first half of the twentieth century, Reagan was to the second half.”

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• Vital Signs

  January 1994

  Sacred Encounters

  "Time," R.H. Ives Gammell wrote in The Twilight of Painting, "is a ruthless appraiser of art and, by and large, a very just one." Gammell addressed his book "to readers disposed to consider the complete deterioration of the older forms of painting a disaster to civilization."

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• Reviews

  February 1991

  'Something Like a Final Ordering'

  In the seventy-seventh of The Dream Songs, John Berryman writes, "these fierce & airy occupations, and love, / raved away so many of Henry's years." The pervasive tone of Berryman's life and writing, spanning the tired, mad, and lonely years from 1914 to 1972, is that of religious despair; somber and violent, the emphasis is on the grotesque dark night of the soul rather than the immaculate light of salvation.

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