Book Review: The New Testament
/A new translation of the New Testament strips away the baroque filigree and presents the raw, jumbled voices of the original.
Read MoreTell Them They’re Not Trees
/How can one be both a Jew and a Romanian? This quandary is at the heart of Mihail Sebastian’s brilliant novel For Two Thousand Years, now in a sparkling new translation.
Read MoreMemory Sickness
/Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter - getting its first US publication - uses the Khmer Rouge atrocities as a backdrop against which to explore its characters' various losses.
Read MoreA Precedent Whilst the World Stands
/In addition to the pageantry, marital eccentricities, and political fireworks, the Tudors were also industrious religious persecutors. As "A Year with the Tudors" continues, a vivid new book tells the stories of the martyrs burned by Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I.
Read MoreWe Are Not Heroes
/In his boisterous new book, veteran video game writer and industry leader Walt Williams tells the story of his past and shares his thoughts on the industry's future.
Read MoreTough Room
/What does a movie-maker do? Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola's new book, Live Cinema and Its Techniques, offers a strange blend of answer and feint by way of responding.
Read MoreNames for Storms
/a poem
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Family deaths cut off the highway to treasured memories”
/Lisbeth Salander, the charismatic bad girl with the dragon tattoo is back in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye; plus a debut thriller, Good Me Bad Me, that is creepy, unsettling and impossible to put down.
Read MoreOn the Fifth of November
/"Whoever devotes himself to decency and to virtue /he beguiles with deceptions, corrupting their temptingly innocent hearts...."
Read MoreWaiting for the Dough
/Near the end of his life, Orson Welles tape-recorded his lunches with a faithful industry friend. By turns hilarious and self-pitying, they give a brilliant glimpse of the aging titan.
Read MoreThe Heavy Blanks
/An aspiring young writer encounters the journals of legendary Canadian novelist Elizabeth Smart, whose virtuoso novella By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept gives no hint of her struggles with her own writing
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