Books
Gabriel 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.
Bruce Allen Murphy conveys the impression that Scalia knows how he feels on every issue before the briefs have been argued.
The biography is a remarkable read. It has all the hefty research you’d expect from a scholarly work, yet the story is told through prose fit for a great novel.
André du Bouchet writes the kind of poetry that other poets ponder, perhaps resist or even reject for a while, yet inevitably return to study even if (or because) their own poetics are starkly dissimilar to his.
So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.
There’s no debate: The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel, with Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn as also-rans.
While The Bone Clocks is compulsively readable, there are too many parts of this book that can only be called lazy.
Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist.
An exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge’s Harvard Film Archive through November 2.
How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.
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