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Thanaphobe

Julian Barnes considers the abyss
Novelist Julian Barnes is a brilliant writer, but he’s not self-revelatory.

By: AMY FINCH | December 22, 2008

David Foster Wallace — 1962–2008

Overhead baggage
A story called “Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace appeared in the 1992 edition of Best American Short Stories .

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 26, 2008

Positively Phil

Roth goes back to college
We all know Philip Roth’s preoccupations.

By: RICHARD BECK | September 16, 2008

Holy roller

Marilynne Robinson’s Home
Marilynne Robinson’s Home is haunted.

By: DANA KLETTER | September 09, 2008

Winners and sinners

Barth, Bolaño, Roth, Morrison, and more
Ah, fall, when Nobel Prize winners are announced — and, now, when past winners turn up with more good reading.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | September 11, 2008

War correspondent

Paul Auster sheds light on Man in the Dark
So here he goes again, the writer known as Paul Auster, starting yet another novel, this time with the words “I am alone in the dark.”

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 02, 2008

Out of this world

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King
The worlds Rosenbaum creates feel less like a separate or “alternate” reality and more like a colorful, if complicated, extension of the one we know.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 26, 2008

Lucky, beautiful, and, now, holy

Rev Run runs straight
He was the king of rock, there was no higher . The sucker MCs, they should call him sire .

By: JIM SULLIVAN | August 20, 2008

War stories

Mailer on the ’68 conventions
“We will be fighting for forty years.” Reading those words at the end of Norman Mailer’s 1968 Miami and the Siege of Chicago , you can’t help but feel a chill.

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | August 19, 2008

Terror-fied

Slavoj Žižek’s revolution
This new grand-theoretical manifesto might be completely daft.

By: GEORGE SCIALABBA | August 12, 2008

Words, words, words

Ammon Shea reads them all for you
Who would do such a thing?

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 11, 2008

Murder, she wrote

Interview: Tana French's deep crime novels
"It’s always more fun to write people who are really messed up or really vicious."

By: CLEA SIMON | August 05, 2008

Car talk

A close look at driving
For days post-late-merge, Vanderbilt had feelings of guilt and confusion.

By: AMY FINCH | August 04, 2008

Victim, not vixen

Sex, death, and the filthy rich
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | July 29, 2008

Tricky Dick

Philip K. Dick's second Library of America volume
The Philip K. Dick phenomenon might be petering out.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 28, 2008

Islander

Julie Hecht’s self-help
There’s still time to spend some of your summer with Julie Hecht.

By: JON GARELICK | July 22, 2008

Parlor salon

Spreading the words in Salem
Spreading the words in Salem

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | July 16, 2008

Grave matters

The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
Entering the small back room at Gallery Kayafas, you feel you’ve been transported into the shadowy pages of a small, mysterious book.

By: CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | July 15, 2008

Bookman

Larry McMurtry’s life in the trade
Larry McMurtry, the best I can tell, remains the only man to have both won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and written an Academy Award–winning screenplay.

By: GEORGE KIMBALL | July 08, 2008

Repression illustrated

People’s history in graphic format
Graphic novels are an acquired taste.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | July 01, 2008

Master builders

Books on, and by, architects
A good architectural monograph is more than just a big colorful book with too-good-to-be-true photos; it’s a window into the heart and mind of the architect it profiles.

By: DAVID EISEN | June 24, 2008

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