More of the Best Novels Since ‘Ulysses’
The Times of London’s list was far from complete. We offer some additional, and maybe even better, choices.
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Author: Michael Washburn
One Hundred Years of Robbe-Grillet
French auteur courted critical firestorms while taking fiction and film in new directions
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The Moral Courage of Salman Rushdie
The celebrity author fought for imperiled free speech, and now fights for his life
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Gary Snyder Joins the Greats
Library of America honors an influential poet of the San Francisco Renaissance
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Werner Herzog Writes His Novel
The Japanese protagonist of the director’s fiction debut refuses to give up the fight of World War II
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Kafka Says
A new collection of strange, wise aphorisms
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What Arthur Phillips Brings to ‘Tokyo Vice’
A novelist’s eye helps guide the HBO crime series in the direction of nuance and social realism as it approaches its second season
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The Weight of ‘Zero Gravity’
Woody Allen’s new collection is too witty to be canceled
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Saw It All Coming
The Jazz Age and the modern age aren’t so different
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The Tragedy of ‘Nitram’
A riveting, controversial, flawed film about the man behind Australia’s worst mass shooting
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Houellebecq and the French Election
France’s most vilified living author understands certain parts of the electorate very well
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The David Foster Wallace Tax
DFW’s (reissued) final novella considers the IRS
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Reading Dostoyevsky Is No Crime
Italian university threatens to cancel Russian literature as response to war, then backs down
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‘Ulysses’ Goes to War
A century on, James Joyce’s masterwork still provokes controversy
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‘Downfall’: Not Boeing’s Finest Hour
Netflix documentary bares results of putting profits before safety
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