Books
If Real Life Rock‘s page count seems daunting, fear not. There isn’t an entry you’ll want to skip.
For a long novel, City on Fire is generously accessible and one of its strengths is in its absorbing, immersive momentum.
These three books by Patrick Modiano are short, intense, and sensuous.
Taken together, these entertaining early novels present a noteworthy collection—particularly for Samuel R. Delany fans.
My biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.
The Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
Clive James gets the most out of whatever’s on the page and isn’t shy about making larger connections.
Jay Parini has provided an important slice of literary and cultural history as well as a portrait of a man.
Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.
Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
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