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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's The Time Regulation Institute (Penguin, 2013) is a mid-20th century satire by one of the most respected Turkis...

I remember liking Diane Setterfield's debut The Thirteenth Tale , but I simply could not wrap my enthusiasm around her latest offering...

It's a useful thing to read a John Banville novel every few years or so, just to remind oneself what really great writing can accompli...

Jafar Panahi is an Iranian director who has been sentenced to 6 years in jail and banned for making films for 20 years because of the ...

I was quite taken with novelist Paul Auster's memoir of his corporeal self, Winter Journal , as I wrote last year.  It was an intimate...

Shorter days and colder temperatures made me crave a long, enveloping story with equal parts warmth, adventure, suspense, and romance.  I ...

I've noticed that whenever I tell the story of going to look for Thomas (all it takes is a couple of beers, like quarters into a juke...

Hofesh Shechter's irrepressible dance piece Sun is joyous and aggressive by turns, filled with images of war, street violence, and...

At the corner of science and culture sits a mollusk, a Nautilus , to be exact.  While we're both waiting for me to post something b...

With my admiration of female authors from the British Isles - Virginia Woolf, Irish Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Taylor, Margha...

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...