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The Raymond Chandler Papers
by Tom Hiney“Chandler, the premiere practictioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile. For the Chandler fan, The Raymond Chandler Papers…
The Best of It
by Kay Ryan“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood…
The Qur’an
by Bruce Lawrence“Timely and provocative. . . . Laurence’s history of the Qur’an [is] highly instructive. . . . The history of the book is a map of the world we live…
The Quarry
by Damon Galgut“The Quarry has the same dry, feral quality as Damon Galgut’s best-known novel, The Good Doctor. Galgut’s landscape reminds a reader of Breyten Breytenbach’s South Africa without the overt politics–roads…
Plato’s Republic
by Simon Blackburn“Plato’s Republic . . . which Blackburn rightly suggests is the first book to shake the world, is loaded with perennial questions that every generation must struggle with. How are…
Palestine
by Karl Sabbagh“Relating the story of Palestine through his own family, Karl Sabbagh (the son of a Palestinian father and an English mother) gives a poignant, often shocking account of how Palestine…
One Soldier’s War
by Arkady Babchenko“By turns horrific, sad, and funny, [One Soldier’s War] fills a big gap by providing us with the first-person experiences of an articulate Russian soldier. . . . Evokes Catch-22…
Olga
by Fernando Morais“[Olga’s] hunger for adventure, her sheer force of character, her passion and courage, called her to a strange and tragic destiny. . . . The saga of Olga Benario is…
The Old Ball Game
by Frank Deford“[Deford] tips a journalist’s fedora, rather than a child’s cap, to one of the most remarkable pairings in sports history.” –Alan Schwarz, The New York Times Book Review…
Night Work
by Thomas Glavinic“[An] extraordinary apocalyptic novel . . . Glavinic creates a more subtle if no less nightmarish mood than such similar books as The Day of the Triffids and I Am…
