The Ashes that Remain: Boris Pahor's "Necropolis"
It’s absurd, but I almost feel that the tourists walking back to their cars can see the striped jacket wrapped around my shoulders and hear my wooden...
It’s absurd, but I almost feel that the tourists walking back to their cars can see the striped jacket wrapped around my shoulders and hear my wooden...
Casey O'NeilAug 16, 2011
Richard’s amazing new memoir, House of Prayer No. 2, avoids the Old South clichés.
Darcey SteinkeJul 26, 2011
Xiao's powerful memoir of his years at a forced labor camp is written in unflinching, unadorned prose that ably conveys the horrors he witnessed.
Vanessa HuaJul 22, 2011
THE BOOK'S COVER looks like a child’s cartoon: a smiling bunny and a chipmunk, a boy in a boat on a pond, two bluebirds holding up a banner. Only the...
D. Charles WhitneyJul 22, 2011
"Must You Go?" is both a wife’s reflection and a historian’s.
Keri WalshJul 3, 2011
Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings.
Laurie BenensonJul 2, 2011
On my trip to Poland this past winter, I brought the perfect book as my traveling companion.
Louise SteinmanJun 27, 2011
A story of "a very imperfect life lived among very imperfect houses," written in homage to the yearnings that have fueled her lifelong game of house.
Erica WetterJun 20, 2011
WE DRIVE BY A CAR ACCIDENT and crane our necks. We want to see the worst: the mutilated passenger, the driver crumpled against the wheel. If a...
Diana WagmanJun 17, 2011
It’s a moral dilemma described in devastating images of both his mother’s failures and the author’s own bottomless faults.
Duff BrennaMay 23, 2011
Despite how much she has been dissected, analyzed, and worshipped, something about Marilyn Monroe remains forever elusive.
Jocelyn HeaneyMay 10, 2011
There’s a voice that, while still a bit controlled, opens on to something savage, even ugly.
Michael TolkinMay 9, 2011
The movie doesn't have the characters from the book -- it has movie stars.
Clara MokriApr 8, 2011