The Wharton School The Wharton School
A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
The Dread Zone The Dread Zone
John Leonard, noted critic and former literary editor of The Nation, died Wednesay at 69. This review of Don DeLillo's Falling Man was one of his last pieces published in the magaz...
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Stranger in the City Stranger in the City
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears tells the story of an Ethiopian immigrant's unrequited love affair with the American Dream.
Apr 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Tara Gallagher
It’s Doom Alone That Counts It’s Doom Alone That Counts
Georges Simenon's remarkable output includes investigative journalism, hardboiled novellas and dark psychological novels.
Apr 19, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marco Roth
Humboldt’s Gift Humboldt’s Gift
The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century's greatest scientists.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
The Things They Carried The Things They Carried
The Bastard of Istanbul, a saga of two interwoven families, bravely violates Turkish taboo with its description of the Armenian genocide.
Mar 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis
Before the Law Before the Law
Isaac B. Singer: A Life fails to fully illustrate the complexity of the writer's struggle with his heritage.
Feb 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Careful, He Might Hear You Careful, He Might Hear You
In the Country of Men tells the story of a Libyan boy whose dissident father is wanted by the authorities.
Feb 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ali Sethi
Free the Ulysses Two Free the Ulysses Two
The time has come to clear the records of two women convicted of obscenity for publishing excerpts from Joyce's Ulysses.
Feb 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Gillers
History Boy History Boy
The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift