Archive

• An Unknown Man: The Memoirs of Marquis of Bradomin

  Valle-Inclán penned politically pointed plays that were to Spain as Brecht’s were to Germany.

  Jeffrey TaylerFeb 19, 2012

  • Literary Fiction

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  Paperback Writers: Georges Simenon

  Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.

  Richard RaynerFeb 18, 2012

• Life After Papyrus: Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve"

  In The Swerve, however, death is nothing, and people aren’t much either.

  Swati PandeyFeb 17, 2012

  • History

  • Nonfiction

• Culture War

  The only way to get to real cultural diversity is to tell stories in which the diversity is real.

  Feb 17, 2012

• Highly Irregular

  It quickly became clear that he loved Sherlock Holmes and the entire Holmes canon as much as I did, though for different reasons.

  Leslie S. KlingerFeb 16, 2012

  • Literary Criticism

  • Nonfiction

• Sharp Tongues

  Megan Abbott possesses one of the most lyrical voices in all of noir.

  Feb 15, 2012

  • Fiction

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  Golden Eye

  It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.

  Ross AndersenFeb 15, 2012

• The Story of Porno

  Hefner’s sexual tastes — sunny blondes with big boobs, in the main — became an American archetype.

  Feb 14, 2012

• It's Complicated: Peter Mountford's "A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism"

  Peter Mountford’s compulsively readable first novel is a book about money, a bildungsroman in reverse.

  Feb 13, 2012

• King of the Losers

  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

  • Fiction

  • Humor

• No One Remembers You At All

  Hollinghurst’s objective is actually a wry, subversive critique of memorialization.

  Jaya Aninda ChatterjeeFeb 13, 2012

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

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  The Marriage Prop

  The Prop 8 trial is, in fact, one of the greatest stories of our time.

  Audrey BilgerFeb 12, 2012
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  Real Penguins in Imaginary Apartments

  on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.

  Anthony OlcottFeb 11, 2012

• Everywhere and Nowhere

  Feb 10, 2012

• Oppositional Thinking

  the idea that the brain's hemispheres, though linked, worked independently has a long history.

  Gary LachmanFeb 9, 2012

  • Nonfiction

  • Science & Technology

• Valediction

  Feb 8, 2012