Year in Reading
December 13, 2011
A Year in Reading: Jonathan Safran Foer 4
by Jonathan Safran Foer
I have not only given this book to numerous friends, I actually changed my life in response to it.
December 13, 2011
A Year in Reading: David Vann 1
by David Vann
In the midst of anarchists and chaos, he offers uncommon sympathy and grace in a marriage lost then found, and redemption from what we fear most, that we can’t run from who we are, that the past is waiting to ambush us.
December 13, 2011
A Year In Reading: Siddhartha Deb 0
by Siddhartha Deb
When I came to the end of the book, I couldn’t help but think of the author, of the blade opening up his stomach, and of the finishing cut administered by one of his assistants.
December 13, 2011
A Year in Reading: Yaşar Kemal 2
by Yasar Kemal
I was recently asked to name the novel that I thought best reflected the essence of the twentieth century, probably the most painful century of mankind, a century that saw inhuman indignities, bloody world wars, genocides.
December 12, 2011
A Year in Reading: Mona Simpson 7
by Mona Simpson
Bronte’s last novel has received only fourteen Amazon reviews to Jane Eyre’s 991, one written by a woman who admits that the book is the subject of her master’s thesis.
December 12, 2011
A Year in Reading: Alex Ross 1
by Alex Ross
Can a writer’s prose be too fine, too composed? In an age where language seems to be getting crummier by the minute, I’m inclined to doubt it.
