The Name of Love The Name of Love
In January 1948 Dutton brought out the third novel of a promising young writer named Gore Vidal. The publishing house was nervous.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Haslett
Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote
On the page, Patricia Highsmith could inspire a law-abiding citizen to become a willing accomplice to murder, at least within the realm of the imagination.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kera Bolonik
About Begley About Begley
Louis Begley is perhaps currently best known as the author of About Schmidt, the novel from which the recent acclaimed film starring Jack Nicholson was adapted.
Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Kingdom of Shadows, the sixth of Alan Furst's novels of historical espionage fiction, was hard for me to put down--and when I did, I couldn't wait to pick it up again.
Oct 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter I. Fifield
Man’s Best Friend Man’s Best Friend
As Stevie Smith once wrote, while impersonating God, "I will forgive you everything,/But what you have done to my Dogs/I will not forgive." About Dan Rhodes's novel Timoleon Vi...
Oct 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
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