The John le Carré Universe Continues in ‘Karla’s Choice’ Even Though le Carré is Dead
Fortunately, his son, Nick Harkaway, is also an excellent spy novelist
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Author: Jim Arndorfer
‘A Complete Unknown’ Tells the Big Dylan Lie
Even a genius has to learn how to play music
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‘Absolution’ Takes Us Back to Area X
Jeff VanderMeer publishes a compendium of internal monologues. It won’t be a bestseller. But it’s a must for ‘Southern Reach’ completists.
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‘Creation Lake,’ Potential Booker Prize Winner: Really?
The Rachel Kushner “novel of ideas” is not what you would call good.
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The Makers of ‘A Complete Unknown’ Clearly Didn’t Learn the ‘Walk Hard’ Lesson
“I hear Bob is playing electric.”
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Hemon Not on Hemon
In ‘The World and All It Holds’, Aleksandar Hemon broadens his literary gaze into history
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An Above-Average Book About Mediocre White Men
A white man edited this review that a white man wrote about a Black woman’s life’s work
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Is It Time To Kill King Arthur?
The myth has run its course
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Lost In Translation
How an Obscure Northwestern University Magazine (Barely) Introduced the U.S. to Modern Latin American Literature
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