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East Meets West, East Loses West
This novel traces the delightfully absurd affair between a Belgian language teacher and her Japanese student.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:14 PM [GMT] – comment?
This novel traces the delightfully absurd affair between a Belgian language teacher and her Japanese student.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:14 PM [GMT] – comment?
Out of Egypt
The novelist Alaa Al Aswany places his emigré characters in post-9/11 Chicago.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:10 PM [GMT] – comment?
The novelist Alaa Al Aswany places his emigré characters in post-9/11 Chicago.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:10 PM [GMT] – comment?
All American
In her new story collection, Louise Erdrich chronicles Native American ways, but also captures the voices of multitudes.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:09 PM [GMT] – comment?
In her new story collection, Louise Erdrich chronicles Native American ways, but also captures the voices of multitudes.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:09 PM [GMT] – comment?
Water Damage
This novel examines the psychological aftermath of a boy’s loss of his mother in a flood.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:07 PM [GMT] – comment?
This novel examines the psychological aftermath of a boy’s loss of his mother in a flood.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 5:07 PM [GMT] – comment?
The Monstrous Anger of the Guns
The Somme was the bloodiest battle Britain ever fought, but Peter Hart argues that it was hardly senseless.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 4:42 PM [GMT] – comment?
The Somme was the bloodiest battle Britain ever fought, but Peter Hart argues that it was hardly senseless.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 4:42 PM [GMT] – comment?
Alison Flood: New York's French bookshop bids adieu
There's at least one man who won't be surprised by the news that the best-known French bookshop in the USA, the Librairie de France in New York's Rockefeller Centre, will close next September. That man is Horace Engdahl, the Nobel literature prize's permanent secretary who descri ... more »
The Guardian – Jan 2, 2009 4:21 PM [GMT] – comment?
There's at least one man who won't be surprised by the news that the best-known French bookshop in the USA, the Librairie de France in New York's Rockefeller Centre, will close next September. That man is Horace Engdahl, the Nobel literature prize's permanent secretary who descri ... more »
The Guardian – Jan 2, 2009 4:21 PM [GMT] – comment?
Poster poems: Language games
Whenever we do a theme-based poster poems challenge, I'm painfully aware that I'm indulging in a convenient fiction. Why? Because poems are not really made from subject-matter; it is not the seriousness or high moral worth of its theme that makes a piece of writing into a poem. It's t ... more »
The Guardian – Jan 2, 2009 3:21 PM [GMT] – comment?
Whenever we do a theme-based poster poems challenge, I'm painfully aware that I'm indulging in a convenient fiction. Why? Because poems are not really made from subject-matter; it is not the seriousness or high moral worth of its theme that makes a piece of writing into a poem. It's t ... more »
The Guardian – Jan 2, 2009 3:21 PM [GMT] – comment?
A Love Supreme
A passionate history of music’s path to cultural primacy, full of entertaining anecdotes and trivia from the worlds of classical, jazz and pop.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 3:17 PM [GMT] – comment?
A passionate history of music’s path to cultural primacy, full of entertaining anecdotes and trivia from the worlds of classical, jazz and pop.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 3:17 PM [GMT] – comment?
Rough Crossing
In Robin Romm’s account of her mother’s death from cancer, her fury is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 3:13 PM [GMT] – comment?
In Robin Romm’s account of her mother’s death from cancer, her fury is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth.
New York Times – Jan 2, 2009 3:13 PM [GMT] – comment?
Mystified? Solve It With Science
Whodunit? Was it Dr. Jones, in the lab, with the beaker? Eric and Natalie Yoder may have the answer. They are authors of One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science, a new book that uses mysteries and problem solving to get kids energized about science.
NPR.org – Jan 2, 2009 3:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Whodunit? Was it Dr. Jones, in the lab, with the beaker? Eric and Natalie Yoder may have the answer. They are authors of One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science, a new book that uses mysteries and problem solving to get kids energized about science.
NPR.org – Jan 2, 2009 3:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
