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War correspondent
Paul Auster sheds light on Man in the Dark
So here he goes again, the writer known as Paul Auster, starting yet another novel, this time with the words “I am alone in the dark.”
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| September 02, 2008
Out of this world
Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King
The worlds Rosenbaum creates feel less like a separate or “alternate” reality and more like a colorful, if complicated, extension of the one we know.
By:
NINA MACLAUGHLIN
| August 26, 2008
Lucky, beautiful, and, now, holy
Rev Run runs straight
He was the king of rock, there was no higher . The sucker MCs, they should call him sire .
By:
JIM SULLIVAN
| August 20, 2008
War stories
Mailer on the ’68 conventions
“We will be fighting for forty years.” Reading those words at the end of Norman Mailer’s 1968 Miami and the Siege of Chicago , you can’t help but feel a chill.
By:
CHARLES TAYLOR
| August 19, 2008
Terror-fied
Slavoj Žižek’s revolution
This new grand-theoretical manifesto might be completely daft.
By:
GEORGE SCIALABBA
| August 12, 2008
Words, words, words
Ammon Shea reads them all for you
Who would do such a thing?
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| August 11, 2008
Murder, she wrote
Interview: Tana French's deep crime novels
"It’s always more fun to write people who are really messed up or really vicious."
By:
CLEA SIMON
| August 05, 2008
Car talk
A close look at driving
For days post-late-merge, Vanderbilt had feelings of guilt and confusion.
By:
AMY FINCH
| August 04, 2008
Victim, not vixen
Sex, death, and the filthy rich
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
By:
CLIF GARBODEN
| July 29, 2008
Tricky Dick
Philip K. Dick's second Library of America volume
The Philip K. Dick phenomenon might be petering out.
By:
PETER KEOUGH
| July 28, 2008
Islander
Julie Hecht’s self-help
There’s still time to spend some of your summer with Julie Hecht.
By:
JON GARELICK
| July 22, 2008
Parlor salon
Spreading the words in Salem
By:
NINA MACLAUGHLIN
| July 16, 2008
Grave matters
The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
Entering the small back room at Gallery Kayafas, you feel you’ve been transported into the shadowy pages of a small, mysterious book.
By:
CHRISTOPHER MILLIS
| July 15, 2008
Bookman
Larry McMurtry’s life in the trade
Larry McMurtry, the best I can tell, remains the only man to have both won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and written an Academy Award–winning screenplay.
By:
GEORGE KIMBALL
| July 08, 2008
Repression illustrated
People’s history in graphic format
Graphic novels are an acquired taste.
By:
CLIF GARBODEN
| July 01, 2008
Master builders
Books on, and by, architects
A good architectural monograph is more than just a big colorful book with too-good-to-be-true photos; it’s a window into the heart and mind of the architect it profiles.
By:
DAVID EISEN
| June 24, 2008
Confessions of an editor
DeWitt Henry's candid new collection of essays meditates on manhood
There’s a quiet courage in these essays, and a revelatory sense of the continuing challenge of pressing on.
By:
NINA MACLAUGHLIN
| June 20, 2008
Priorities, rediscovered
In her first book, actress Debra Winger focuses on home, not Hollywood
Instead of checking into rehab, the actress spoke her mind.
By:
JENNY HALPER
| June 19, 2008
Frank Bidart’s ambivalent appetite
The poet probes human opposites in his latest collection
Frank Bidart adores the savage Catullan paradox.
By:
SVEN BIRKERTS
| June 17, 2008
Small presses
Big ideas, and a match made in heaven
Rose Metal Press focuses on unique, non-traditional literary forms such as flash fiction, prose poetry, or novels-in-verse.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| June 11, 2008
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