Book Reviews

The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

This book has everything from Angels to “The Zaratan”.



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The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

Don’t worry, this intelligent debut novel has nothing to do with that awful Tom Cruise film.



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A Poem Traveled Down My Arm by Alice Walker

I was a tad harsh earlier. Please allow me to give a second opinion…



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Bech is Back by John Updike

The hiatus is over and we invite you to “THINK BIG” with Bech.



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The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Mad with Words; Mad with Fear



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Bech: A Book by John Updike

“Philip Roth spotted in Updike pastiche”



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Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson

Academic loves and the thrills of scholarship, Via Canada.



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Sexually, I’m more of a Switzerland edited by David Rose

“If I wear a mask, will you call me Batman? Just asking. Box no. 0558″



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The Enchanter and The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov

The Enchantments and Thrills of Language, Art and Love



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Reflections: A Year in Reading (2009)

An interesting year deserves interesting books.



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