We often think of the past as if it were another world — and in some ways, it is. The politics, religion and social customs of...
Sometime in the 2000s, the producer Lindsay Doran asked her doctor for a book recommendation. “I’m reading that book everybody’s reading,” the doctor replied. “You know,...
Siri Hustvedt was halfway through a new novel, about a writer tasked with completing his father’s unfinished manuscript, when her husband, the novelist Paul Auster, died...
There’s a Hollywood action star, standing in silhouette at the top of a creepy manor’s staircase, dressed in a corset and jockstrap, thighs fitted into fishnets...
Admittedly, Americans seem to have a soft spot for books about faraway places that end up reminding them of themselves. Hansen’s, though, is in many ways...
PRESTIGE DRAMA, by Séamas O’Reilly In recent years, a vibrant stream of writing has emerged from Northern Ireland concerning not just the Troubles, but also the...
Part of Clark’s subtlety is the way in which the category of “what Suzanna refuses to know” remains undefined. Is it, as her grandmother would have...
She was blond and he was dark-haired; they were almost photonegatives. She looked as if she’d been in Bergman films. He was, visually, America’s Camus —...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge is focused on unfinished novels that their authors...
CHERNOBYL, LIFE, AND OTHER DISASTERS, by Yevgenia Nayberg “You have to share many things with others … but what you remember belongs to you and you...
