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In Assumption a murder mystery becomes a lesson in how much we do not know.
In 11/22/63, Stephen King conveys the horrors of American exceptionalism.
A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.
The Stranger's Child traces the vanishing of same-sex love through suppression and then, paradoxically, acceptance and openness.
Ann Beattie is an artist of the things we don’t say, or can’t, and that find expression anyway.
In The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides can’t explain what happens to his characters without throwing in every last why.
With We Others, Steven Millhauser remains the master of the inevitable ending in American fiction.
In his novel Abbott Awaits, Chris Bachelder employs his comic wackiness to great effect.
Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.
Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories; Mercè Rodoreda, The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda.
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Reviews the book "The Complete Short Novels," by Anton Chekhov, and translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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Reviews the book, "The Good Doctor," by Damon Galgut.
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Reviews the book 'The Adventures of Augie March,' by Saul Bellow.
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The article presents information on a plot which was approved by John and Robert Kennedy to kill Fidel Castro at Ernest Hemingway's Cuban Farm. It's no secret now that President Kennedy and his brother the Attorney General wanted Fidel Castro out of the way. After Castro thwarted the Kennedy-approved and CIA-orchestrated invasion at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, the Kennedy's continued to seek means of toppling the Cuban leader. In early 1962, according to a CIA memo, Bobby Kennedy told a group of CIA and Pentagon officials that a solution to the Cuban problem carried "the top priority in the United States government all else is secondary
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The article discusses two books "Hemingway: The Final Years," by Michael Reynolds and "True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir," by Ernest Hemingway. The appetite for author Ernest Hemingway is apparently insatiable. Of course, Hemingway remains good copy, for unlike most writers, he didn't just sit around and write. More sedate than their subject, his biographers fall into two main camps. The first group follows the gentlemanly lead of Carlos Baker, whose 1969 authorized biography is a model of meticulous research, tact and tedium. Michael Reynolds extends the Carlos Baker tradition at its prodigious best.
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The article focuses on the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain. Many of the novel's first reviewers found it disturbing and offensive. They called it, among other things, vulgar, inelegant, ungrammatical, coarse, irreverent, semi-obscene, trashy and vicious. In the 1930s author Ernest Hemingway praised Huckleberry Finn as the work from which all-modern American writing stems. Unlike most issues of public policy involving opposed literary judgments, the current argument about the place of Huckleberry Finn in the public school curriculum does not involve censorship or First Amendment rights.
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Reviews the book 'Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novellas,' by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony H. Chambers.
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Reports on Random House's re-issue of the novel 'Invisible Man,' by Ralph Ellison in the U.S. 30th anniversary of the novel; Image of the book as the most distinguished postwar work; Plot of the novel.
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