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Displaying articles for: July 2008
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante
The dramatic life of an iconoclastic Italian writer. Read more...
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
The 16th-century clash of two civilizations produced some of the most memorable -- and bloody -- maritime battles in history. Read more...
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
A sharp-eyed cadet navigates the Kafkaesque terrain of Pakistan?s military hierarchy in this debut novel. Read more...
Beijing Coma
A Chinese family?s struggle with repression, echoing in the mind of a victim of Tiananmen Square. Read more...
Dark Rainbow
Paul Di Filippo looks at four new books that showcase the capacious possibilities within fantasy?s darker reaches. Read more...
Not in the Flesh
Ruth Rendell?s Inspector Wexford investigates an old body -- and continues to mourn society?s decline. Read more...
While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
An author?s obsession with an enigmatic atrocity leads to a surprising confrontation with the aftermath of violence. Read more...
Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson
The underappreciated importance of the piano lesson. Read more...
The Library at Night
Memoir, history, and philosophy join together in the work of a committed bibliophile. Read more...
Slumberland
A quest for sound takes a DJ to post-Cold War Berlin in this picaresque send-up of racial and cultural preconceptions. Read more...
Of Weight and Loss: Four Memoirs
Sarah Norris on memoirs that chart attempts to reshape the self -- literally. Read more...
Before Green Gables
Can a classic of children?s literature survive a prequel? A lifelong fan reports. Read more...
This Land Is Their Land
The author of Nickel and Dimed takes aim at the powers that be. Read more...
The Story of Forgetting
In this debut novel, both the burden of memory and the terror of its loss take their toll. Read more...
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
The muse goes global in an international anthology of contemporary poetry. Read more...
Dinosaurs on the Roof
An imagined afterlife is at the core of this domestic drama. Read more...
The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Nations Rise
Where should the next captain steer the ship of state? Read more...
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
A voiceless young man and his canine companions are the center of a reimagined Hamlet. Read more...
Prague in Danger
An account -- both personal and historical -- of life during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia Read more...
Exiles
A terrible shipwreck moves a tormented poet to return to his craft, in a novel based on the life of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Read more...
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes -- and Why
The stories of survivors yield insights into how ordinary people can face extraordinary dangers. Read more...
The White King
A debut novel maps the uncertain terrain of a boy?s life in Ceauçescu?s Romania. Read more...
The Americans
Half a century later, the photographer?s images still contain unsettling power. Read more...
America America
A politician and his patron shoot for the White House and fall from grace. Read more...
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Poems new and old consider manhood, travel, and America itself. Read more...
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.
Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.
A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.
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