Odd. The Lacuna is no Barbara Kingoslver I know: Barbara Kingsolver provides a foil to this tendency with The Lacuna, all the more remarkable, it's fair to say, given the position reserved for it on best-seller lists. The novel's own...

Given that over the past year or so I've never actually found the novel that I'm looking for in Borders, I could make a killing here: Borders, which earlier in the year struggled to keep books in stock as it reduced inventory levels, has...

Nice to see a review of Jean Philippe Toussaint's Running Away at Words Without Borders, although the general cold-shouldering of this author continues to baffle me (well, not really . . .): This brief summary leaves out the feelings that form...

Sooner than later I'm going to read Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel (compliments of Columbia University Press), which examines 4 post-9/11 novels. American Fiction Notes interviews author Kristiaan Versluys: You note that there...

Peter Handke is an author I've long meant to read. His novel Don Juan: His Own Version is forthcoming from FSG in February and recently arrived at my doorstep. I also managed to snag a copy of his novel Across at the SF Public Library's gigantic used...