As Big as Mount Ararat As Big as Mount Ararat
Orhan Pamuk may be the face that Turkish literature turns to the West, but the novelist Yashar Kemal is its conscience and heart.
Jun 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Marc Edward Hoffman
Bierced Bierced
Ours is an age of the unexpected, the extraordinary—the uncanny. What better time to resurrect the stories of Ambrose Bierce?
Jun 24, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Victor LaValle
Anti- Anti-
In The Ask, Sam Lipsyte never ventures beyond the comfort zone of his eloquently damaged protagonist.
Jun 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / J.M. Tyree
Intimacies and Dishonesties Intimacies and Dishonesties
In Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver, the uncertainties laid bare go to the heart of human relationships.
Jun 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open
For Herta Müller, writing is not a matter of trusting, but rather of the honesty of the deceit.
May 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
The Crack-Up The Crack-Up
The Latin American utopia has disappeared, says novelist and crackero Jorge Volpi, and he displays little nostalgia for it.
Apr 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
A Reign Not of This World A Reign Not of This World
Juan Carlos Onetti immerses himself in reality just long enough to fashion an escape. This is his peculiar gift.
Apr 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer
The Catch The Catch
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a ratio...
Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nelson Algren
A Life’s Sentence A Life’s Sentence
Maureen Howard's most recent novel is The Rags of Time.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Howard
In Disobedient Rooms In Disobedient Rooms
Pre-emptive evolution, the voices of time, infodumps: the science fiction of J.G. Ballard offers not prescience but present-sense.
Feb 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / China Miéville