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The success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.
Ace film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
Andrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.
Tim Page on a generous sampling of Virgil Thomson’s best music criticism – trenchant, outspoken, oftentimes delightfully clever, and always assured.
Marian Schwartz’s careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex linguistic texture.
Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.
Jazz fans with open ears should rush to this book: so should anyone interested in the creative process, its rewards as well as its challenges.
Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.
Philippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.
Book Commentary: Dreiser’s “The Titan” Turns 100 — America’s “Downton Abbey”
Theodore Dreiser’s The Titan is not the greatest novel about American business, but it is still among the best, an honorable runner-up that turned 100 this year.
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