Being and Nothingness Being and Nothingness
John Coetzee's new book reads like a suicide note.
Oct 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
La Japonaise La Japonaise
With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and '70s radicalism--the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities
The hero of The Namesake is an American of Bengali parentage named Gogol Ganguli.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich
Local Color Local Color
A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
London Kills Me London Kills Me
Monica Ali was recently named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--an A-list of red-hot literary youth writing some of the most promising books on the contemporary ...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Diana Abu-Jaber
She’s Gotta Have It She’s Gotta Have It
In his 1997 song "Highlands," Bob Dylan reports a conversation between himself and a waitress. "She says, You don't read women authors, do you?/...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Claire Dederer
Bleak Haus Bleak Haus
Though still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989 at the age of 57, is widely recognized as ...
Sep 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
An Empire of Their Own An Empire of Their Own
"I have never had such a bad feeling about a war ever before," wrote Sha Twa Nee on the Prophecy Club message board in April.
Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melani McAlister
Thieves Like Us Thieves Like Us
In March 2001 a small Internet website in Delhi, tehelka.com, revealed that two of its reporters had used a secret camera to tape senior defense officials and political leaders...
Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I've been bashfully mute amidst the chatter over Norman Rush's new novel, Mortals, because he wasn't on the modest list of Writers I Know About.
Jul 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Bradley