Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction’
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Reading Prague
22 May 2014Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable…
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Redeployment – Stories From A War
23 Apr 2014Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from…
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Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars
27 Mar 2014Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500…
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Mexican Mystery Classic: The Mongolian Conspiracy
03 Mar 2014New Directions, blessed with a nose for lesser known and marginalized literature of high value since its founding in 1936,…
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The Dentist as Observer – in Egypt
02 Jan 2014Alaa al Aswany, author of the remarkable novel, “The Yacoubian Building,” from which a very good 2006 film was made,…
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Such a Long Journey — A Novel About Parsi India, 1972
30 Nov 2013I don’t know why I picked up Rohinton Mistry’s Such A Long Journey. Published and shortlisted for the Booker Prize…
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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, a Novel
26 Aug 2013Looking at a bookshelf while stopping through Winslow, Arizona I didn’t see a girl in a flat bed Ford but…
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“The Bear in the Back” from Tales of the Ixat
25 Jul 2013THE BEAR IN THE BACK I usually look back when they get in the cab. Just a quick glance is…
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Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found
06 Jun 2013Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book! Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The…
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The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
31 May 2013Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in…
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The Prince of Peace — A Novel of Love and War Resistance
15 May 2013On a long train ride from Los Angeles to Oakland recently I was able to take up the recommendation of…
