From the monthly archives: September 2008
By Joseph Heller (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972)
Imagine a book densely packed with and surrounded by mathematics, and it’s unlikely you’ll have imagined a novel. But consider these early lines:
In the office in which I work there are five people of whom I am afraid. Each of these five people is afraid of four [...]
Continue Reading →By Jeff VanderMeer (Tor Books, 2006)
Shriek: An Afterword is a book of books. In its setting and some elements of its plot, it is a work of fantasy about a surreal city called Ambergris. It is also a personal drama, as its literary narrative style mixes — sometimes sentence for sentence [...]
Continue Reading →By Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape, 2004)
Recently, more Americans than ever are getting to know Anne Enright, whose novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. But almost nobody here has read Making Babies, which has yet to find an American publisher. It’s hard to describe the fascination [...]
Continue Reading →By Sarah Pemberton Strong (Alyson Books, 2002)
When I was a kid, my family used to go to the Caribbean for vacation in the summer. Once, on a beach in Barbados, I watched a conch fisherman in the rough surf right off shore, just a man with a set of fins, a long metal pole, [...]
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