Car Talk Car Talk
A mock-heroic travelogue by Julio Cortázar and his wife captures the contemplative life on the road.
Dec 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Colin Fleming
Memorable Gestures Memorable Gestures
Michael Ondaatje shows off his trademark narrative tricks in his new novel Divisadero, but the magic is wearing thin.
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Tony Eprile
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