Peter Carey

The Man Booker shortlist: Americans, be patient

2010-09-07 16:34:24

<![CDATA[The Man Booker shortlist: Americans, be patient]]>

In an upset, 2010 Man Booker Prize goes to 'The Finkler Question'

2010-10-12 16:33:49

<![CDATA[In an upset, 2010 Man Booker Prize goes to 'The Finkler Question']]>

National Book Award finalists announced: No Franzen

2010-10-13 16:33:55

<![CDATA[National Book Award finalists announced: No Franzen]]>

Patti Smith wins National Book Award

2010-11-17 21:33:13

<![CDATA[Patti Smith wins National Book Award]]>

New Yorker Festival announces lineup

2010-08-26 16:34:34

<![CDATA[New Yorker Festival announces lineup]]>

Cutting through the din of the dotcom age

2009-12-20 00:00:00

During the last decade, more than ever before, writers faced the challenge of cutting through the noise. The new millennium began with the enduring influence of W.G. Sebald: his marriage of word and image somewhere deep in the reader's subconscious; his...

Peter Carey mirrors De Tocqueville’s American odyssey

2010-04-26 00:00:00

Parrot & Olivier in America A Novel Peter Carey Alfred A. Knopf: 386 pp., $26.95 Come to think of it, America is one long picaresque novel. It takes an Australian-born novelist to remind us of this, mired as we are in the great project, democracy....

Man Booker Prize longlist announced

2010-07-27 16:35:19

Michael Silverblatt: good literary listening

2010-08-05 16:34:28

Battle of the New York literary balls

2010-03-31 16:33:57

Patrick White's cruel visionaries

2009-03-29 00:00:00

Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps,...

"Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism" by John Updike

2007-10-28 00:00:00

If John Updike had written nothing but novels, his career would still have an almost Victorian amplitude. Since 1959, he has published 22 stout, supple fictions crammed with the minutiae of American life and perfumed, much of the time, with sexual...

The great novelist takes his 12-year-old son to Japan, where he learns that everything he thought he knew was wrong. Plus, manga! Anime! Toilets the likes of which you wouldn't believe!

2011-03-07 14:08:32