Tight Corners Tight Corners
When Richard Price moves from the urban ruins of New Jersey to the gentrified Lower East Side of Lush Life, things get complicated.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair
In the Lost Realm of the Real In the Lost Realm of the Real
Michael Dibdin's detective Zen series sounds a melancholy note for an old Italy rife with political enemies.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Searching for Traces Searching for Traces
There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr
Dead Letters Dead Letters
Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig saw himself as a Freud of fiction--a fellow spelunker in the caverns of the heart.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
The Age of the Wooden Spoon The Age of the Wooden Spoon
The radical subjectivity and reckless politics of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun find new expression in recent English translations and editions.
May 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Lytal
The Counter-Family The Counter-Family
British author Jonathan Coe departs from grand social transformations and turns to the domestic sphere in The Rain Before It Falls.
May 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Man Out of Time Man Out of Time
In Hari Kunzru's captivating new novel My Revolutions, a former anti-Vietnam terrorist is dredged up after half a lifetime underground.
Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Sorkin
Where Now? Let’s Go! Where Now? Let’s Go!
The nonsensical funhouse of Donald Barthelme's fiction celebrates the cosmic joke of life and the pathos of grappling with it.
Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Seems Like Old Times Seems Like Old Times
This week's episode: Dieter Countryman reminisces about the good ol' days of selling the first Gulf War; Connie Waller gets his freak on in Vegas.
Apr 7, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Gary Phillips
Internal Combustion Internal Combustion
Could Russell Banks be retooling himself as a fabulist?
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Holbrook Pierson