For a recent review in Choice Reviews, K.L. Majocha discusses Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Click here to learn more about the book. See the button to the left to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:
“Heller-Roazen examines the phenomenon of overhearing across literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and cultural contexts, emphasizing how accidental, fragmentary, or unintended speech cancarry meaningful significance. In his analysis, such fragments appear as omens in antiquity, slips inpsychoanalytic theory, and moments of revelation in modern literature.”