The Museum of Innocence

Now in paperback, just in time for me to tell you that this generous novel, by the 2006 Nobel Laureate, Orhan Pamuk, remains the most captivating fiction I've read in the past year. An exploration of time and desire told through the enduring devotion of a businessman to the object of his youthful infatuation, it is also a poignant love letter to the author's native Istanbul.

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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