Time to pack your books for another stop on the world literature tour, after an extended, unscheduled stop in Germany. As you’d expect, there was a lot of reading to pick up here.
There were a lot of votes reminding us that Theodore Fontane remains something of a god of the European realist novel, even if [...]
17
May
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24
Dec
Special-effects budgets are one thing writers don’t have to worry about when they set about creating Highly Unusual Worlds. And in the three fall-season debut novels reviewed below, the Highly Unusual is the order of the day.
“Bowl of Cherries”
by Millard Kaufman
McSweeney’s, 326 pp., $22
The narrator of this rambunctious picaresque novel is a teenage Yale dropout [...]
17
Dec
ANDREW RIEMER
David Malouf’s new collection of poems, Typewriter Music
(UQP), was for me the outstanding book of the year. Malouf’s verse
is lithe and graceful. His subject matter is wide, ranging from
memory poems to the commemoration of the ancient world. Almost
without exception these poems reveal a masterly skill in tone,
diction and imagery. Typewriter Music was, in many [...]
17
Dec
Special-effects budgets are one thing writers don’t have to worry about when they set about creating Highly Unusual Worlds. And in the three fall-season debut novels reviewed below, the Highly Unusual is the order of the day.
“Bowl of Cherries”
by Millard Kaufman
McSweeney’s, 326 pp., $22
The narrator of this rambunctious picaresque novel is a teenage Yale dropout [...]
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