Careful, He Might Hear You Careful, He Might Hear You
In the Country of Men tells the story of a Libyan boy whose dissident father is wanted by the authorities.
Feb 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ali Sethi
Free the Ulysses Two Free the Ulysses Two
The time has come to clear the records of two women convicted of obscenity for publishing excerpts from Joyce's Ulysses.
Feb 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Gillers
History Boy History Boy
The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift
Bombay Confidential Bombay Confidential
Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007 Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
Jan 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Uncle Tom’s Shadow Uncle Tom’s Shadow
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Getting Even Getting Even
Roald Dahl's Collected Stories are best enjoyed by adult readers who take their humor black.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Amidon
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is actually four stories, each replete with brilliant patter, fancy footwork, wishful thinking and a plaintive ukulele.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Half a Life Half a Life
In The Lay of the Land, the final work in Richard Ford's acclaimed trilogy, Frank Bascombe picks up where he left off in Independence Day--taking road trips, describing houses and ...
Nov 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Hedin
Representative Fictions Representative Fictions
An ambitious two-volume history of the novel explores its evolution across continents and centuries.
Nov 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz