Francine Proseâs “Mister Monkey” takes on the bananas world of childrenâs theater
Thirty years ago, she wrote a zany novel called âBigfoot Dreams." This time around, sheâs swinging with a smaller simian, but her ambition is bigger.
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Book review: Margaret Atwood rewrite Shakespeare
Margaret Atwoodâs âHag-Seed,â is her modern-day take on âThe Tempest.â It¶¶Òőap the latest volume of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which hires well-known authors to write novels based on the Bardâs...
“A Gentleman in Moscow”â is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy
How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed new novel by Amor Towles stretches out with old-world elegance. âA Gentleman in Moscowâ offers a chance...
Book review: McEwan’s “Nutshell” a weird, brilliant little novel
âNutshell,â Ian McEwanâs preposterously weird little novel, is more brilliant than it has any right to be. The plot sounds like something sprung from a drunken round of literary Mad...
Book review: “Bright, Precious Days”: social satire or consumer porn?
It¶¶Òőap his third book about Russell and Corrine Calloway, the New York couple who make their friends believe a good marriage is still Âpossible. We first met these shiny lovers...
Book review: “Dancing With the Tiger” offers valuable insights
Shuffling quietly through the cool halls of any great museum, patrons have little sense of the moral quagmire that lies behind acquiring such collections. But that dirty back story is...