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‘Us’ tackles domestic battleground

Us By David Nicholls (Harper) David Nicholls’ engaging new novel is not the sort of serious, weighty fiction that often wins the Man Booker Prize, though it made the longlist for 2014. This year, ...

Dec 11, 2014
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The dead are all around us in ‘Rooms’

“Rooms” By Lauren Oliver (Ecco) Lauren Oliver, author of the young adult best-selling Delirium trilogy, turns triumphantly to adult fiction with her latest, “Rooms,” a haunted house story of fine ...

Dec 11, 2014
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On translating the work of Jules Verne

Kim Seok-hee shares his respect for the French novelist through translation

Dec 10, 2014
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‘There Was and There Was Not’ crosses Turkish-Armenian divide

At the Armenian-American camp Meline Toumani attended each summer in Massachusetts, she and her fellow campers knew exactly what bonded them as a people. And no, it wasn’t just their adult-sized nose...

Dec 4, 2014
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Brother Anthony translates two poetry anthologies

Brother Anthony of Taize, a translator of Korean literature and emeritus professor of English at Sogang University, recently translated two poem anthologies: “Shadows of the Void” and “Patterns.” As...

Dec 4, 2014
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Pirie on the case in ‘The Skeleton’

The Skeleton Road By Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press) Author Val McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel that gives equal attention to each genre...

Dec 4, 2014
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‘Big Finish’ keeps tension high

The Big Finish By James W. Hall (Minotaur) Living in the “shadowy world” has always worked well for Thorn, the taciturn hero making his 14th appearance in James W. Hall’s series. Living in a “prim...

Dec 4, 2014
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‘Ralph Peer’: Roots music mogul

Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music By Barry Mazor (Chicago Review Press) Do you love Bruce Springsteen? B.B. King? Garth Brooks? Ruben Blades? No doubt you answered yes to at least ...

Dec 4, 2014
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‘Midnight in Siberia’ eyes Russia today

Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia By David Greene (W.W. Norton) As the West nervously watches a newly aggressive Russia, many commentators are trying to figure out what...

Dec 4, 2014
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Gong shares journey of faith

Author discusses her new book on her Catholic belief, ‘More of the Monastery Travelogue 2’

Nov 27, 2014
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Rise, fall and sale of multiculturalism in U.S.

Jeff Chang remembers the first time he saw the comic strip “Wee Pals” and the jolt it gave his young mind. Right there, on the comics pages that were generally colorless even when they ran in full co...

Nov 27, 2014
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‘Blue Avenue’ channels classic noir

Blue Avenue By Michael Wiley (Severn House) Jacksonville, Florida, author Michael Wiley takes a measured walk on the dark side in his intriguing thriller “Blue Avenue” that channels classic noir a...

Nov 27, 2014
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‘Family Furnishings’ deep, surprising

The most astonishing aspect of Alice Munro’s “Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014” may be its chronology. The two dozen efforts here come from late in her career, after she had establishe...

Nov 27, 2014
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‘See You in Paradise’ plays with genre

See You in Paradise By J. Robert Lennon (Graywolf Press) “Most contemporary literary fiction is terrible: mannered, conservative and obvious,” J. Robert Lennon stated on Salon, responding to anoth...

Nov 27, 2014
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‘Revival’ asks if there is life after death

Revival By Stephen King (Scribner) A page-turning tug-of-war between reformed rocker Jamie Morton and man of faith Charles Jacobs, “Revival” (King’s second novel this year after spring’s “Mr. Merc...

Nov 27, 2014
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