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I have been a fan of David Leavitt's work since his debut collection of stories, Family Dancing , in 1984.  Literate, deeply felt, som...

Norwegian novelist Merethe Lindstrom's Days in the History of Silence (Other Press, 2011 trans. Anne Bruce) is an intimate unearthing...

The Secret Knowledge (Dedalus, 2013) by Andrew Crumey was recommended by John Self , and I can't say that I liked the novel quite as...

Themes of truth-telling and father-child relationships were the subject of Juan Gabriel Vasquez's The Informers , which I wrote about ...

Benjamin Wood has written a suspenseful, smart psychological thriller in The Bellwether Revivals (Penguin, 2013).  Working in Cambridge i...

It has been a while, I know.  I had a small matter to attend to - the completion and defense of my dissertation.  Now that I am Dr. Bookeywo...

It's the six-week count-down to my dissertation defense so, in case you haven't noticed, I haven't been doing much writing.  Not...

A capsule will have to suffice for this entertaining read on multiple generations of English ex-pats in Hong Kong.  This is the first nove...

I'm a fan of Dave Eggers clean, mission-infused writing from having read What is the What , a fictionalized biography of one of Sudan...

I have enjoyed Michael Frayn's plays and memoir, so I was excited to find his Skios on the table at my favorite bookstore.  It is bil...

Nora Eldridge, the narrator of Claire Messud's new novel The Woman Upstairs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) , is a school teacher and a duti...

The 1989 civil overthrow of Soviet rule in Eastern Europe was one of the most influential revolutions of recent history, and feels somehow...

Director, Margarethe von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa made Rosa Luxemburg, a film about the life and politics of the provocative soc...

Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy is a love story, or more than that, a connection story.  The story of a connection bet...

There have been three film adaptations of The Great Gatsby that I know about: The 1949 film starring Alan Ladd, The 1974 film with Robert...

Andre Aciman is a contemporary voice of longing - longing for home while in exile, longing for lost love.  I really enjoyed his Eight Whit...

On Sheila's recommendation I saw Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st recently, starring Anders Danielsen Lie a triple-threat: mus...

Over the last ten days, I attended the annual conference of the International Society for Autism Research, in San Sebastian Spain, where I...

Headed to points east for a conference and a couple of days of relaxation.  Be back soon.

I was surprised by Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close .  Though predictably sentimental, the persistence of a young boy who is probably o...