Fiction

Many Exits Many Exits

Philip Roth's Exit Ghost considers whether we're astonished by death or the life that precedes it.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Matt Weiland

War Novelist War Novelist

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By Norman Mailer. Rinehart and Company. $4.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ira Wolfert

Rules of the Game Rules of the Game

A fresh translation of a Portuguese classic offers a poignant portrait of a country's decline.

Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes

Fukú Americanus Fukú Americanus

Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.

Nov 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Playtime Playtime

The Surrealist dissident Raymond Queneau turned his writings into a lab for his experiments, and the results are still exhilarating.

Nov 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Mark Polizzotti

Revenants Revenants

In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.

Oct 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami

Gracelands Gracelands

The taint of an unjust war tarnishes the lives of Vietnam-era Americans in Denis Johnson's stunning new novel.

Oct 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen

Dark Paradise Dark Paradise

A trilogy of hard-boiled detective novels set in Marseilles contemplates the ethnic turmoil in modern-day France.

Oct 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

My Bondage, My Freedom My Bondage, My Freedom

Robert Walser's writing--opaque and ethereal, provoking and digressive--is finally being introduced to American readers.

Aug 23, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood

Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Epic Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Epic

The last book in J.K. Rowling's saga is marked by throwaway references to a post-9/11 world and derivative insights that never add up to a coherent moral vision.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry

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