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Literary Occasions_ Essays - V. S. Naipaul; Pankaj Mishra
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cu... -
Lit_ A Memoir - Mary Karr
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, 'continued to set the literary ... -
Light Boxes - Shane Jones
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A poignant and fantastical first novel by a timeless new literary voice. ** With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descriptions, and a wholly unique st... -
Land of Marvels - Barry Unsworth
SUMMARY: Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and ma... -
India_ A Wounded Civilization - V. S. Naipaul
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou... -
In Other Worlds - Margaret Eleanor Atwood
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood’s account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This re... -
I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at t... -
How the Soldier Repairs the Gra - Sasa Stanisic; Anthea Bell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hardcover publication of *How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone* launched Stanisic as an exciting and important new voice in literary fiction and earned exub... -
Honor thy father - Gay Talese
June 2009 Review “Mr. Talese’s insight will do more to help us understand the criminal than any amount of moral recrimination.” (Times Literary Supplement (London) ) “Brilliant...I... -
Holder of the World - Bharati Mukherjee
"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee proveshe is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the futu...