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… Like with much of Atxaga’s work, the writer originally composed the novel in Euskara, translated it himself into … takes us along into worlds seemingly like our own but also strange and tantalizing, filled with suspense, humor, … forgiven, or even praised? Why, for example, is it OK for Zadie Smith to fashion her novel “On Beauty” after E.M. …
… possesses subtler kinds of value. Bertrand Russell recommended it; others have also discovered its charms. But in … to the urgency of her need and the cleverness of her expedients. In both autobiographies, then, boredom provides a … of moral and psychological danger. Constituting, from some points of view, sin as well as suffering, boredom may …
… as they stake out positions in the field of American studies. In some books Miller hovers behind and within the … present almost like a muse, as if scholars were unable to compose a single sentence without acknowledging that it is … one is reading 700 pages, this makes a lot of difference. 526-532 By Philip F. Gura …
… For a generation of young people, the Gaza Strip has become a place where dreams go to die. Young boys stand amid the wreckage of their family home … the horse cart as we pull into a pitch-black alley and points to a street corner a few yards away. “That’s where …
… watchtowers. Reviewers and critics are saying, and I am in complete agreement, that Ellen Glasgow and John P. Marquand … and Mr. Marquand is not a matter to be taken into the handiest laboratory for scientific measurement. The most … Miss Glasgow and Mr. Marquand have a good many other points in common, along with certain quite obvious …
… the Next Global Age, by Paul Starobin. Viking, May 2009. $26.95 “Great as it is, American power is limited,” Walter … positions regarding Hiss’s innocence because of what he embodied. For liberals, Hiss symbolized the ideals of the New … from Minot’s far-flung travels. These form stepping-off points from which to explore the place of birds in manifold …