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Middlemarch: Finale
A great reading experience can be like a love affair or a journey—it lives on in memory and in our lives, it touches the way we understand our own…
Mona Simpson
Sep 3
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Review: Edward Mendelson: (1) Translating the Bible
Three new books about translating the Bible reveal how the translation of sacred works gets to the very heart of translation itself.
Aug 11
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Review: (2) Àlvaro Enrigue on Cristina Rivera Garza
Rivera Garza has strained to make visible the machinery of suppression in a world ruled by violence and greed, machinery whose main expression is…
Jul 21
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Review: Joy Williams on Rachel Ingalls
(Drawing by Nicholson Baker) “She had a keen sense of the unrealness of people and event, the questionableness at the heart of the world … her best…
Jun 20
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Charles Portis
Talk about Charles Portis and you start acting like a character from Charles Portis. You pull people aside and assault them with enthusiasm, assuring…
May 19
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Colm Tóibín
A special feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some quotations and a drawing.
Mar 31
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Michael Kimmelman
A special feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some quotations and a drawing.
Feb 21
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Alain Corbin
Book Sketch is a new special Book Post feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some…
Feb 2
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads “Papyrus,” by Irene Vallejo
Book Sketch is a new special Book Post feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some…
Jan 22
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