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Stealing All Transmissions is slim, but nearly every page is filled with insight and originality.
Read MoreGalway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.
Read MoreMartin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.
Read MoreHave we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
Read MoreAlthough Street of Thieves is less accomplished than Zone, it once again displays how Mathias Énard is seeking new ways to talk political issues in precise, often gripping prose.
Read MoreReligion occupies pride of place in this volume. As Lawrence Wright says at the outset: “The struggle for peace at Camp David is a testament to the enduring force of religion in modern life”
Read More“The Boston Book Festival is doing really well. It feels like an established part of Boston’s cultural scene.”
Read MoreGabriel is a searing experience to read, filled with sadness but also humor and forbearance, and may give comfort to parents who are dealing with difficult children.
Read MoreBruce Allen Murphy conveys the impression that Scalia knows how he feels on every issue before the briefs have been argued.
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Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature
Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.
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