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Teenage Hipster in the Modern World
by Mark Jacobson“In his vibrant, pulsing journalism, Mark Jacobson consistently displays the essential quality of a great musician: the sense of surprise. He looks, he listens, he plays on his horn. And…
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
by Patricia Highsmith“While best known as a writer of thrillers, Highsmith is concerned with crafting stories to evoke the human comedy. Her wry portrayals of human folly sometimes lack sympathy, but Highsmith…
The Stendhal Syndrome
by Terrence McNally“In the opener, a trio of tourists . . . contemplate Michelangelo’s David in hilarious Restoration comedy-like asides as they are overcome by the statue’s, uh, size and power. ….
Song of Napalm
by Bruce Weigl“Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heart-wrenching and often very funny poems… Weigl may have written the best novel so far about the Vietnam War,…
The Siege
by Helen Dunmore“The best historical fiction delivers emotional truth through the lives of imaginary but ordinary people, making it possible to feel the texture of events that have been smoothed out by…
Shrouds of Glory
by Winston Groom“Groom peoples his history with vivid characters. Shrouds of Glory effectively evokes the overwhelming momentousness of war.” –Christopher Lehmann–Haupt, The New York Times…
Second Violin
by John Lawton“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling…
The Rose of Martinique
by Andrea Stuart“The Rose of Martinique is a comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.”…
The Retreat
by Patrick Rambaud“In The Retreat, a novel much praised for its level of historical detail, French writer Patrick Rambaud locates little grandeur in the ghastly carnage of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. ….
Raymond Chandler
by Tom Hiney“A skillful treatment . . . of the frequently muddled life of the writer who elevated crime fiction to widely acknowledged eminence.” –The New York Times Book Review…
