Displaying articles for: January 2010

The Godfather of Kathmandu

As detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep crosses the border into Nepal, the karmic burdens weighing on Bangkok’s most honest cop get even heavier.

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Point Omega

The author of Underworld and Falling Man ensnares readers in another "imaginative act of empathy" and leaves us "suspended in its drama of time."

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Tracking the True Roberto Bolaño

Last interviews and an early novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666.

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Ordinary Thunderstorms

A single mistake sets of a hurricane of consequences, battering a hapless climate scientist in this darkly comic, Dickensian tale.

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I.O.U: Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay

How we drove the world's economy right off the road.

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Sleepless

In Charlie Huston’s surreal new thriller, zombie-like Los Angelenos find themselves up all night.

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Remarkable Creatures

In this novel of scientific discovery in Regency England, the human specimens are the most unusual.

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Just Kids

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a passionate friendship that rocked the music and art worlds. Read more...

The Unnamed

In the new novel from the author of Then We Came to the End, a dramatic and surprising combat between the flesh and the spirit.

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Doors Open

An art-heist in the heart of Edinburgh takes a wrong turn in this darkly comic caper. Read more...

The Ticking Is the Bomb

In an act of daring juxtaposition, the award-winning poet and memoirist meditates on the arrival of his child in a world shadowed by torture.

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36 Arguments for the Existence of God

Philosophy, religion, science, madness and love are all on the menu in this richly imagined novel of ideas.

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You Are Not a Gadget

A founding eminence of cyberspace inveighs against the digitization of culture. Read more...

The Swan Thieves

The new novel by the author of The Historian turns away from vampires to obsessions of more mortal flesh.

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Ransom

One of Australia’s most celebrated writers turns back to a chilling episode out of Homer: the rage of Achilles, and the terrible fate of Hector.

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Daring Young Men

The Berlin Airlift was supposed to be a stopgap measure until a diplomatic stalemate could be resolved. It became a pivotal victory in the Cold War. Read more...

Noah's Compass

A mysterious assault provokes a reassessment from a man who had resigned himself to a second-rate life. Read more...

Committed

The author of Eat, Pray, Love traces her circuitous route back to the altar. Read more...

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.

When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.