Words Apart Words Apart
In Amitav Ghosh's new novel, language is a medium of power.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Nell Freudenberger
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
In 1865 22-year-old Henry James contributed a scathing book review titled "The Noble School of Fiction" to the very first issue of The Nation.
May 5, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hatch-Miller
Love’s Body Love’s Body
Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer renowned for his capacity to create beautifully controlled surfaces and to beautifully evoke the roiling emotions beneath them.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud
Bellow’s Lonely Planet Bellow’s Lonely Planet
The world Saul Bellow made.
Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
About a Boy About a Boy
Jonathan Safran Foer, wunderkind.
Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
The Imagination of Disaster The Imagination of Disaster
Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he's unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window.
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
LOVECRAFT: Tales
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Justin Taylor
The Man Who Wasn’t There The Man Who Wasn’t There
Christopher Marlowe's life was short, sharp and irresistible.
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift
Uneasy Rider Uneasy Rider
It's not often that a new style appears in American prose, but this is what happened with John Haskell's first book, a collection of short stories called I am not Jackson Pollock...
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil
Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is i...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Banville