Tag Archives: Reviews

This weekend I finished reading Hiding Man, Tracy Daugherty’s fantastic new biography of postmodernist Donald Barthelme. Perfect thing to read this past cold, melancholy, drizzled week. The Barthelmes — a most talented family — seem to exist under a slight … Continue reading →

How Japanese mysteries evolved from imitation to adaptation Tracing the disordered steps from Edgar Allan Poe to Edogawa Rampo By MARK SCHREIBER PURLOINED LETTERS: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937, by Mark Silver. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008, … Continue reading →

Cassocks and Codpieces Salman Rushdie’s ebullient historical novel manifests both his dexterous erudition and his bawdy wit. by Christopher Hitchens Salman Rushdie is so much identified with seriousness—his choice of subjects, from Kashmir to Andalusia; his position as a literary … Continue reading →

Please read about this exceptional new book from Roberto Bolano. Nazi Literature in the Americas excerpt: The book purports to be a biographical dictionary gathering 30 brief accounts of poets, novelists and editors (all fictional) who espouse fascist or extremely … Continue reading →

Been saying it for years but now there is a new book out devoted to this topic. Here is a great British review of it. Is America the new Rome? Noel Malcolm reviews The New Rome: The Fall of an … Continue reading →