April, 2007
What NBCC Award Winner Gary Giddins is Looking Forward to Reading This Year
by Gary Giddins | Apr-11-2007
We asked Gary Giddins, NBCC award winner for criticism,whose latest book is "Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books," what was on...read »
Interview with NBCC Winner Lawrence Weschler
by Jane Ciabattari | Apr-08-2007
In presenting the NBCC award in criticism to Lawrence Weschler for "Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences" last month, NBCC president John Freeman...read »
George Orwell on Book Review
by Rebecca Skloot | Apr-04-2007
The best practice, it has always seemed to me, would be simply to ignore the great majority of books and to give very long reviews -- 1,000 words is a bare...read »
What Are You Looking Forward to Reading in Spring 2007?
by Maureen McLane | Apr-03-2007
Five books I'm looking forward to reading this spring:
Susan Sontag, "At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches" (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, March): This may...read »
A Conversation with Barbara J. King
by Jessa Crispin | Apr-02-2007
For the past two years, biological anthropologist Barbara J. King has written a monthly feature for my literary webzine, Bookslut.com. I believe the...read »
March, 2007
Critical Outakes: Mohsin Hamid on Camus, Immigration, and Love
by admin | Mar-30-2007
NEXT WEEK, Harcourt will publish Mohsin Hamid's second novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," a brisk rewriting of Albert Camus' "The Fall" (1957) for...read »
What I’m Looking Forward to this Spring
by John Freeman | Mar-30-2007
LIKE A FEW OTHERS ON THIS BOARD, I'm working my way through the Lee biography of Wharton, which is terrific (so far), and have set aside a weekend for...read »
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