Indignation, a story of sexual survelliance in God-fearing America, revisits the same war and the same fear. Fear, in fact, underlies the actions of nearly every character.
At hlo József J. Fekete profiles ‘the Proteus of Hungarian literature’, Szentkuthy Miklós (1908–1988), in Outprousting Proust
Coming in September 2008
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx. This short-story collection was pushed back from the summer.
Coming in October 2008
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré. He's back with Scribner after a short foray to Little Brown.
There are many, many intriguing books on the docket for the next six months, but these are some of the most notable.
’ve heard Bernard Malamud’s name returning like an echo from the past in recent months. A biography by Philip Davis was well received last year
Envy those University of Minnesota students who have the opportunity to take a class titled "The Old Weird America" from the
man who
coined a term that has come to define everything from aesthetic categories in music and art to that feeling you get when driving past burnt-out barns along the highway.
Yesterday the
Chicago Distribution Center, a division of the University of Chicago Press and one of the nation's largest distributors of scholarly and professional books, issued a press release announcing an agreement with online content packager
Tizra to begin selling subscriptions to online books.
That said, the recent list of
the 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 strikes me as unbelievably provincial, and well, just plain bad.
His latest,
Born Yesterday, is an attempt to publish a novel featuring a backdrop of topical events. Covering England in 2007, the year of the summer floods, Gordon Brown succeeding Tony Blair and the disappearance of Madeleine Mcann, Burn has attempted to produce a work that lives and breathes a recognisable yet complex and uncertain climate.
Beaten but unbowed (well: perhaps a little bowed), I delved straight back into the literature of Nobel laureates after my
recent failure. After
falling in literary lust with Melville House’s Art of the Novella series, I was pleased to see them expanding into modern fiction, with the unsnappy but unarguable Contemporary Art of the Novella series.
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