Monday, June 18, 2007

Watch This Space

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Coming soon: Assessments of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (remarkable and moving), Woody Allen's Mere Anarchy (h...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Falling Down

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A condensed version of a review that appeared in today's Hindustan Times . FALLING MAN Don DeLillo The sense of being let down by Falli...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Immigrant Song

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TWO CARAVANS Marina Lewycka In this follow-up to the charming A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian , Marina Lewycka takes the same theme...
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Monday, June 4, 2007

9 To 5 To Eternity

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THEN WE CAME TO THE END Joshua Ferris Considering that most of us spend most of our time in cubicles, it’s surprising there aren’t more nov...
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Friday, June 1, 2007

Refreshing Rereading

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READING LIFE: BOOKS FOR THE AGES Sven Birkerts If I’ve been tardy about replenishing this blog of late, blame it on Sven Birkerts. In this ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The Witching Hour

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AFTER DARK Haruki Murakami Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin Night-time in Tokyo. Jazz and pop standards play at seedy restaurants ...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Hunt And Peck

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RISKY BUSINESS Al Alvarez Al Alvarez is, famously, the person who befriended Sylvia Plath during her last days, going on to write The Savag...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Nothing Fishy About It

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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Paul Torday Some novels tell stories through diary entries. Some, through e-mails. Some, though letters. Salmon...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Black Literature

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CHRISTINE FALLS Benjamin Black Baffled, middle-aged Irishman confronts the ghosts of his past in a lyrically-written account peppered with ...
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Lively Lives

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WRITTEN LIVES Javier Marias Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa Marias says in his prologue to this collection of quirky pro...
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