Georges Simenon

Review: 'The Twenty-Year Death' by Ariel S. Winter is 3-in-1 noir

2012-07-29 00:00:00

-------------------- The Twenty-Year Death A Novel Ariel S. Winter Hard Case Crime: 672 pp., $25.99 -------------------- Noir is, first and foremost, style. It's like kabuki, or, more to the point, the blues — a folk art defined by its...

Summer page-turners

2011-05-22 00:00:00

Act of Passion A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: $14.95 paper Though successful at his work and family life, a doctor grows dissatisfied and restless and thinks a casual affair is the perfect answer—until the consequences are far...

The Reading Life: Rediscovering Vonnegut

2010-09-07 16:34:25

Military Snaps to Attention for Reagan

2011-02-27 04:33:14

Natalie Portman's 'Lolita' clutch

2010-12-04 16:34:08

Five literary treats to last all year long

2010-12-24 21:33:45

Book review: 'Pedigree' by Georges Simenon

2010-09-05 00:00:00

Pedigree A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: 560 pp., $17.95 paper In 1941, a doctor told Georges Simenon that he had two years to live. The famously prolific author eventually learned the diagnosis was wrong (he died in 1989), but the...

‘Elegy for April’ by Benjamin Black

2010-04-16 00:00:00

"Elegy for April" is the third crime story that the Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville has published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. As with the earlier books "Christine Falls" and "The Silver Swan," the action here takes place in the...

'My Little War' by Louis Paul Boon

2010-01-17 00:00:00

My Little War A Novel Louis Paul Boon Translated from the Flemish by Paul Vincent Dalkey Archive Press: 136 pp., $12.95 paper "My Little War" is a fictionalized account of the Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon's travails as a frontline soldier during...

'The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes I-IV'

2009-12-20 00:00:00

In 1958, Malcolm Cowley edited the first collection of interviews with contemporary authors from the pages of the Paris Review. Over the intervening half-century, the Review has packaged up more than a dozen additional volumes of this material, most...

A river barge journey in South of France

2008-02-27 11:41:53

Try this once in your life: Stand on a boat as it moves slowly down the narrow waterway of a foreign country. The world passes by, close and observable, and you watch it with a sense of elevated station. The clarity, the buoyancy, the cushiness make you...

The Nordic Mystery Boom

2008-05-25 00:00:00

Americans are often unaware of major cultural trends developing just slightly off the beaten path. Take the Scandinavian Whodunit Boom. A month ago, Karin Fossum's novel, "The Indian Bride," won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery. Fossum, a...

Writer Georges Simenon, shown here in 1981.

2003-11-10 00:00:00