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A Swing and a Miss
Why the latest hyped-up work of staggering genius fizzles… More »
Patrick Hamilton’s exceptional, and overlooked, novels show that falling in love with the wrong person is misery—and it isn’t much fun for the wrong person either.… More »
Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen.… More »
Henry de Montherlant’s work displays the charms of a black-hearted misogynist.… More »
Bill Clinton may have secured the release of two American journalists, but as our correspondent, a South Korea-based professor of North Korean studies, reports, his trip to Pyongyang has troubling consequences too.… More »
Toni Morrison’s new historical novel is a monotonous series of flashbacks, larded with anachronisms.… More »
"To hope that a new administration in Washington can build trust with the North Koreans where their most sympathetic blood-brethren have so abjectly failed would be to take American exceptionalism to a new extreme."… More »
"We should be thinking less about the transition of North Korean power, and more about the worldview that Kim and his potential successors have in common."… More »
An English critic decries the decline of his language—and his civilization.… More »
It’s the most critically acclaimed novel of the fall. And it’s astonishingly bad.… More »
His narration may be clunky and his sex scenes almost comical, but Alan Furst’s turns of plot can leave a reader breathless… More »
Elmore Leonard's talents have increasingly become cooped up in his hallmark tough-guy aesthetic… More »
Why our farm animals would be better off on the other side of the Atlantic… More »
Blank pages? Photos of mating tortoises? The death throes of the postmodern novel … More »
Rightly championed for decades by genre and literary readers alike, John le Carré has written a novel that may appeal to neither camp… More »
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