Fiction. Gad Holander's WALSERIAN WALTZES is a sequence of meditations on madness, writing, death, and identity. Focusing on a character split between the first-person singular pronoun and his own name -- a character who may or may not be dead and may or may not be insane, a character whose goal is to become a 'self-made failure' -- Hollander skillfully leads us to contemplate the paradoxical trajectories of language, the subjective and objective...