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Ohran Pamuk opens a museum

By Damian Van Denburgh

The Museum of Innocence.

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TV & Film News

Brooklyn goes Hollywood

By Greg Dybec

Colm Toibin’s popular novel comes to life on the big… >>

Books Review

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

Alex Gilvarry

Skip the title. Read the book.

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TV & Film News

New Charlie Kaufman adaptation

By Jeff VanVickle

Innovative screenwriter to write script for young-adult series Chaos Walking.

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Culture News

Pinterest Board of the Week: Minimalist book covers

By Lorenn Kassel

Less is more

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Books News

When The Great Gatsby wasn’t so great

By Greg Dybec

F. Scott Fitzgerald never lived to see any fame or… >>

Music Feature

A Clockwork Mixtape

By Stewart Mason

Music from and inspired by A Clockwork Orange

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Books Review

Satantango

László Krasznahorkai

A fiendish masterpiece.

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Books News

Hemingway’s softer side is revealed

By Damian Van Denburgh

What are you lookin’ at?

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Books News

UK’s Orange Prize nominees announced

By Damian Van Denburgh

The best in women's fiction.

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Books Review

Men in Space

Tom McCarthy

“Major Tom” McCarthy does it again.

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Books Review

Bed

David Whitehouse

Home is where the bed is.

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Books Review

The Orange Eats Creeps

Grace Krilanovich

Teen vampire hobo junkie looks for her long lost sister.

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Lightning Rods

Helen DeWitt

Sex in the workplace takes on a whole new meaning.

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Bad Marie

Marcy Dermansky

Nice girls finish last.

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Driving on the Rim

Thomas McGuane

The legacy of Camus in small town Montana.

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Beautiful Children

Charles Bock

What happens in Vegas isn’t all glitter.

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Three Delays

Charlie Smith

Love is a drug in this romantic picaresque.

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Mr. Peanut

Adam Ross

A postmodern marital noir.

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Appassionata

Eva Hoffman

The political gets personal.

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Day of the Oprichnik

Vladimir Sorokin

Damning satire of contemporary Russia.

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Zazen

Vanessa Veselka

A dystopian vision matched by a dark new voice in… >>

Books Review

Once Upon a River

Bonnie Jo Campbell

One of the best books of the year.

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Room

Emma Donoghue

A young woman and her son make a break for… >>

Books Review

The Artificial Silk Girl

Irmgard Keun

Marks the return of a spirited voice.

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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Geoff Dyer

A singular writer takes on two cities to explore approaches… >>

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Culture of One

Alice Notley

A fascinating and demanding book.

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Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Wesley Stace

A novel of music, modernism, and murder.

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Books Review

The Illumination

Kevin Brockmeier

It hurts so bright.

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The Great Night

Chris Adrian

The mortal world collides with the immortal.

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Books Review

The Tragedy of Arthur

Arthur Phillips

The play’s the thing.

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Toxicology

Jessica Hagedorn

Hagedorn’s characters suffer for their art.

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Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

Two stories about two sets of mourners don’t quite make… >>

Books Review

I Curse the River of Time

Per Petterson

Mom’s dying, the wife is leaving, but memories stay put.

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Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Gators and ghosts take center stage in Russell’s Floridian family… >>

Books List

Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves

By Tracy O’Neill

A pedophile with a redundant name preys on a young… >>

Books Review

An American Dream

Norman Mailer

Mailer lets the crazy out in this man-kills-wife psychodrama.

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

A concierge and a poor little rich girl wax poetic… >>

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Fishboy

Mark Richard

The lunacy of the high seas finds a rich storyteller… >>

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Everything Matters!

Ron Currie Jr.

Currie Jr. makes apocalypse as funny and life-affirming as it… >>

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Great House

Nicole Krauss

Four narrators and zero climax make for a tedious portrayal… >>

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Jernigan

David Gates

Misery never sounded as good as it does in this… >>

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The Quick and the Dead

Joy Williams

Charmingly morbid young girls’ lives tangle strangely following the deaths… >>

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Thumbsucker

Walter Kirn

A thumb-sucking, pill-popping, Bible-toting joyride through middle-American ennui.

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Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers

By Tracy O’Neill

Before these writers became literary rockstars, they nine-to-fived in hospitals,… >>

Books Review

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

George Saunders

A country smaller than a New York City apartment is… >>

Books Review

The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway

An epic sci-fi thriller featuring bombs, ninjas, and a smart… >>

Books Review

Holding Still for As Long As Possible

Zoe Whittall

Lovers are swapped like baseball cards in this novel about… >>

Books Review

The History of Love

Nicole Krauss

Love and literature are the life-blood of this remarkable novel.

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Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart

A super funny, not-quite sad love story for the Facebook… >>

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Atmospheric Disturbances

Rivka Galchen

Love and doppelgangers receive a psychological examination in this playful… >>

Books Profile

Joyce Carol Oates

By Tracy O’Neill

A tirelessly prolific American writer.

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Books Review

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

A demon child acts as her sister’s keeper in… >>

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The Sweet Hereafter

Russell Banks

A small town grieves after a tragic bus crash.

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The Foundation Pit

Andrey Platonov

The Foundation Pit marks the reemergence of an important voice.

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At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O’Brien

A writer writes about a writer writing, and literature literally… >>

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You Remind Me of Me

Dan Chaon

A Midwestern epic depicting the reconnection of two brothers separated… >>

Books List

Summer Reading List: Dreams and Diversions

By Damian Van Denburgh

The dog days of summer are here, which means it's… >>

Books Review

Eat the Document

Dana Spiotta

Idealism on the run.

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Old Men in Love

Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray’s reach exceeds his grasp in Old Men in… >>

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How the Dead Dream

Lydia Millet

A conscientious rich guy isn’t an oxymoron in this Lydia… >>

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Surreal-list

By Damian Van Denburgh

Growing out and away from the more overtly political, anti-war… >>

Books Review

An American Type

Henry Roth

An American Type brims over with vitality, but squanders its… >>

Books Profile

Bonnie Jo Campbell

By Damian Van Denburgh

An American original.

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Books Review

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

A wonderfully compressed vision of a man destined for loneliness.

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Joshua Ferris

By Tracy O’Neill

A straight shooter unafraid of addressing the big bad malaises… >>

Books Profile

James Baldwin

By Damian Van Denburgh

The conscience of a generation.

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Books Review

Every Man Dies Alone

Hans Fallada

A devastating story of resistance and courage.

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Books Review

The Drinker

Hans Fallada

Makes for an uncomfortably riveting reading experience.

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Books Review

The Abyss of Human Illusion

Gilbert Sorrentino

Sorrentino’s last work is poisoned by its own sting.

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Books Review

The True Deceiver

Tove Jansson

Deception runs through Jansson’s cunning novel.

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The Body

Hanif Kureishi

Botox, boob jobs, and butt implants? These seem the stuff… >>

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American Pastoral

Philip Roth

A New Jersey golden boy loses hope when his daughter… >>

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

This American classic deserves its legendary status.

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Books Review

Libra

Don DeLillo

One of DeLillo's finest.

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Books Profile

Donald Barthelme

By Damian Van Denburgh

Unequaled innovator of experimental fiction.

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Rick Moody

By Damian Van Denburgh

Controversial author of postmodern literature.

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David Foster Wallace Author

By Emma Hospelhorn

A wildly influential American author known for his innovative, occasionally… >>