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January 19, 2010
Ask a Book Question #77 (The Red and the Black in Translation) 3
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
Modern Library’s rather sexy cover of translator Burton Raffel’s The Red and the Black testifies to his approach.
January 11, 2010
Ask a Book Question #76 (Good Readers, Good Readings) 7
by Editor
Suggestions for readers who really own a stage.
September 4, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #75 (Murakami and Books to Read in Japan) 9
by Ben Dooley
Murakami’s obsession with the West, rather than honing his eye for dissecting his own culture, has led him to cut it out of his stories almost entirely.
August 16, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #74 (Just One Book) 24
by Editor
If you could read just one novel, what would it be?
June 9, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #73 (Tuesday New Releases) 6
by C. Max Magee
Poornima writes in with this question:
Why is it that new hardcovers seem to always release on a Tuesday? I have noticed this pattern a lot and I wonder if there is a reason.
The Tuesday release date is an industry standard, and not just for books; new CDs and DVDs are almost invariably released on Tuesdays. [...]
May 21, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #72 (Books on the Silver Screen) 10
by Editor
Kathy wrote in with this question:
Our book club is focusing on books made into movies. We read fiction, no murder mysteries. I would like to keep either the book or the movie fairly current. Beloved is as far back as I would like to go. I thought about Wonder Boys and then [...]
