It’s not easy being a translation. Americans, if not all English-language readers, are famously averse to international literature, although we tend to be more understanding of foreign-born English-language writers (think Rushdie […]
Jay McInerey’s NY Times review of the latest Salinger biography doesn’t exactly inspire one to run to the nearest liquidating Borders to pick up a copy. However, it does resurrect […]
I started listening to Simon Vance’s engrossing reading of Alain de Botton’s 2006 book in the middle of January in Boston, when the surroundings are either at their best or […]
Of late, the mainstream adult fantasy novel has come into vogue—the dark alter-egos of Narnia, Oz, and Hogwarts bringing home the fruit of childhood to bloom on a grown-up tree. Astonishingly, […]
