Discoveries: Friedrich Delius
She tries to make sense of the war and its reasons, and cannot.
She tries to make sense of the war and its reasons, and cannot.
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
Girlchild is told in many voices: Rory’s diary entries, social worker notes, letters, arrest records,
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
It is time, after all, and not White himself that has transformed so drastically.
Alex GortmanFeb 20, 2012
Megan Abbott possesses one of the most lyrical voices in all of noir.
Cullen GallagherFeb 15, 2012
Peter Mountford’s compulsively readable first novel is a book about money, a bildungsroman in reverse.
Chris KrausFeb 13, 2012
Hollinghurst’s objective is actually a wry, subversive critique of memorialization.
Jaya Aninda ChatterjeeFeb 13, 2012
Doyle captures perfectly a barfly’s manic account of events (both profound and mundane) in the life of Pete, his car, and his dog, Lester.
Lee PolevoiFeb 13, 2012
Lee's characters are forced to make the sorts of impossible decisions that turn regret into an indelible feature of the landscape.
Heather HavrileskyFeb 6, 2012
Sherman's readers become witnesses to the ways history can make and then re-make identity.
Elizabeth RosnerFeb 6, 2012
Troop self-consciously and self-loathingly follows the tradition of prior literati who migrated west to sell their souls to the industry
Robin RussinFeb 6, 2012
On the grim hardness of a neglected noir master.
Boris DralyukJan 26, 2012
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."
Cornel BoncaJan 8, 2012
For many years, I believed that my favorite novel was Catch-22.
Jennifer EganDec 24, 2011
1. LET'S BEGIN AT THE END. An eighty-year-old man is visited by his daughter. This man is a retired university professor, a literary critic of some...
Howard AklerDec 3, 2011
Zombies, it turns out, have much to tell us about our lives in the 2010s.
Alix OhlinNov 14, 2011
The Cows seems particularly playful, gentle. Her consciousness here bristles, stirs, even strains, but it rarely furrows or breaks.
Matthew SpecktorNov 8, 2011
RATHER THAN AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE for the bewildered employee, Georges Perec's The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a map down a rabbit hole...
Rachel GalvinAug 31, 2011
Machart proves that there is still room on old frontiers, and plenty of fresh paths to take through them.
Eric ShonkwilerAug 25, 2011
Kosztolányi is considered one of the greatest Hungarian writers, a virtuoso of style and control
Adam Z. LevyAug 16, 2011
Like her earlier works, Bad Marie is human, deeply-felt, delightfully well-honed, and though stylized, stops short of quirkiness for quirkiness’ sake.
Shelley SalamenskyJul 22, 2011
Aslan's collection makes clear that the Arab Spring of 2011 reflects a century spent grappling with a postcolonial search for identity.
N. S. MorrisJul 21, 2011
Hagedorn's lean, quick chapters and impressionistic scenes have the effect of sound bytes, and perfectly complement the tone of her world.
Rigoberto GonzálezJul 13, 2011
Mirkovic fixates upon two types of men, not always separate: writers and war criminals.
Jacob SilvermanJun 29, 2011
BEN KATCHOR IS THE Joseph Mitchell of contemporary comics. Mitchell, along with his close friend A.J. Liebling, was a pivotal early New Yorker reporte...
Jeet HeerJun 28, 2011