Year in Reading
December 14, 2010
A Year in Reading: Sigrid Nunez 1
by Sigrid Nunez
One of the few contemporary writers whose work can be called “necessary” without fear of overstatement.
December 14, 2010
A Year in Reading: Paul Harding 0
by Paul Harding
Both books are small masterpieces of great aesthetic and cosmological elegance, told in deceptively anecdotal styles.
December 14, 2010
A Year in Reading: Rosecrans Baldwin 0
by Rosecrans Baldwin
It was an exhilarating discovery: a short, upsetting, foxy novel published way back in 2001.
December 13, 2010
A Year in Reading: Tom McCarthy 2
by Tom McCarthy
It’s hard to describe: nothing really happens in it. Maybe a woman dies, maybe not.
December 13, 2010
A Year in Reading: Lorin Stein 1
by Lorin Stein
She can make you believe, for pages at a time, that the two languages–two ways of thinking and feeling–are a hair’s breadth apart. It really is magic.