Books of The Times: Dubliners Gone Noir in Those Shame-Based 1950s
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John Banville, an author of serious literary ambitions, has written a swirling, elegant genre novel under a pseudonym.
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First there was Slough, John Betjeman's ideal target for a bombing raid. Then there was Hancock's dreary East Cheam and Lord Gnome's ville noire, Neasden.
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Comment is free: Mary O'Hara: Recent murders are gnawing away at Northern Ireland's shiny post-conflict veneer
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LONDON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: Anti-newspaper diatribes bewail falling standards. That's rubbish, and the glory days they hark back to were dreadful
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Marc Forster's adaptation of the bestselling novel is old-fashioned in the best sense
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A quick hike through the Sunday (and a few non-Sunday) book review sections. The Times of London A.C. Grayling takes a sober and sobering look at âCrimes of War (2.0): What the Public Should Know,â edited by Roy Gutman, David Reiff and Anthony Dworkin: In its first edition, published in 1999, this book was an importantly useful compendium, [...].
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If the summer bar scene in Manhattan seems too much of the same old, same old, an antidote might be this diverting musical confection by Jim Wann and Patricia Miller.
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The cloistered community of American poetry has, in recent months, become a little less like Yeatsâs Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue, and a little more like Allen Ginsbergâs âHowl.â
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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"The Almost Moon" (Little, Brown and Company, 304 pages, $24.99), by Alice Sebold: Even under the best circumstances it's hard to imagine conjuring much sympathy for someone who casually offers, by way of introduction, that she has murdered her mother.
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This 1968 survey of Irish life remains noteworthy for its historical perspective, sardonic tone, lively structure and finely etched black and white cinematography.
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There's a reason Philip Roth's new novel is charging up the best-seller list: the story, set from 1940-1942, is on its face linked to the wartime of 2001-2004.
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Russell Banksâs new novel bears less resemblance to any of his gritty, visionary epics than it does to a melodramatic B movie from the 1940s.
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Whether they are old-fashioned narratives, playful improvisations or comic-strip-like tales told in pictures, the stories in this collection, edited by Zadie Smith, force us to re-evaluate that old chestnut âCharacter is destiny.â
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s By Gary B. Youmans, Syracuse University Press , 214 pp., $24.95
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By JAMES MILLS HIS home is a rickety shack surrounded by junk. Yet this 70-year-old Irish tramp is the unlikeliest of property millionaires.