‘The Answer to Everything’ Questions the Veracity of Truth
If this doesn’t get shortlisted for the Giller Prize, well, that would be just proof that the world is an unjust place.
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‘On Such a Full Sea’ Challenges Our Notion of Free Will, but Leaves So Much More Unchallenged
What are we willing to trade off in order to have a steady income, food on one’s plate and a house over one’s head?
‘The Luminaries’ Is One of the Best Books of 2013
Outside the likes of Zadie Smith, we may never see such a young novelist perform such a great highwire act, and largely succeed, as Eleanor Catton has done here.
Portrait of Paul Auster as a Young Man
Report from the Interior works as a companion volume to the 2012 autobiography Winter Journal, and both books make for quality reading back-to-back about Paul Auster’s life and insights.