Morris Renek, Novelist of Hard-Boiled Stories, Dies at 88
Sat, 25 May 2013 23:01:57 GMT
Mr. Renek was a critically admired New York writer who crafted comic tales about historical criminals and modern urban life but never achieved the commercial success he sought.
 
|
ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Lamenting Defectors, Soviet and Otherwise
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:57:33 GMT
Elliott Holt discusses her novel “You Are One of Them”; Rick Atkinson discusses his “The Guns at Last Light”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news.
 
|
ArtsBeat: More Staff Members Leave Granta
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:24:10 GMT
The publisher of the magazine’s book imprint, Philip Gwyn Jones, is leaving, the latest in a string of departures.
 
|
TBR: Inside the List
Fri, 24 May 2013 17:12:41 GMT
Crime sellers in the spotlight and Dan Brown’s “Inferno” makes its debut on the hardcover fiction list at No. 1.
 
|
Maria Semple: By the Book
Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:26 GMT
The author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” calls Franzen her “big daddy” — “My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that’s grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.”
 
|
‘Hannah Arendt’ Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:52:47 GMT
A new film recalls how, 50 years ago, Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” set off furious debates and coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
|
‘Between My Father and the King,’ by Janet Frame
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:46:20 GMT
Janet Frame was saved from undergoing a lobotomy when a book of her stories won a local literary prize.
|
‘The Hanging Garden,’ by Patrick White
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:42:15 GMT
In the eyes of Patrick White’s two refugee children, most Australians are horrible and very few are kind.
|
Open Book: Battle of the Brain
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:34:14 GMT
The National Institute of Mental Health has distanced itself from the “D.S.M.,” the so-called bible of psychiatry, the fifth edition of which is published this week.
|
‘My Bright Abyss,’ by Christian Wiman
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:23:07 GMT
The poet Christian Wiman ruminates on his incurable illness and his return to Christian belief.
|
‘You Are One of Them,’ by Elliott Holt
Fri, 24 May 2013 15:08:51 GMT
Amid entanglements between Russia and young Americans, a first novel explores the sense of betrayal in the loss of family and friends.
|
‘Flora,’ by Gail Godwin
Fri, 24 May 2013 14:59:07 GMT
Gail Godwin’s novel is populated almost exclusively by orphans of various stripes.
|
Paperback Row
Fri, 24 May 2013 14:52:21 GMT
Paperback books of particular interest.
|
Editors’ Choice
Fri, 24 May 2013 14:44:53 GMT
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
|
Essay: Bulgakov’s Ghost
Fri, 24 May 2013 14:43:09 GMT
Some Russians say literature had more political power when it was forbidden.
|
Home
