Milan Kundera

Michael Henry Heim, UCLA scholar and translator, dies at 69

2012-10-02 14:54:09

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Michael Henry Heim dies at 69; UCLA scholar, translator

2012-10-07 00:00:00

Michael Henry Heim, a literary translator and humble philanthropist whose teaching, activism and widely admired translations of works by such writers as G�nter Grass and Milan Kundera helped bring the voices of contemporary world literature into the...

Book review: 'House of Holes' by Nicholson Baker

2011-08-07 00:00:00

House of Holes A Book of Raunch Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster: 262 pp., $25 Nicholson Baker wasn't kidding when he subtitled "House of Holes," his new novel, "A Book of Raunch." Indeed, it's a bona fide filth-fest, so unrelentingly graphic that...

Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days

2010-06-06 00:00:00

JUNE Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl Daniel Pinkwater Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pinkwater brings a magical realist perspective to YA fiction in the third volume of the series that begins with "The Yggyssey" and "The Neddiad." The Clock Without a...

Slaughterhouse 90210: Where high meets low

2009-09-17 08:53:49

Hollywood liberals under fire: The Polanski debate gets political

2009-09-30 16:32:22

Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers

2009-12-22 16:33:29

Israel's Haaretz newspaper lets novelists take on the news

2010-06-02 16:34:29

Summer reading list

2010-06-28 16:36:18

Book review: 'Encounter' by Milan Kundera

2010-08-15 00:00:00

Encounter Essays Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher Harper: 192 pp., $23.99 "Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself?" Milan Kundera asks this question in writing about the painter Francis Bacon,...

John Mayer: The writer behind the controversial Playboy interview speaks out

2010-02-12 21:34:16

A race conversation? What are you talking about?

2008-03-25 00:00:00

Thank God for Barack Obama. For until his "More Perfect Union" speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race. "Maybe this'll be the beginning of a conversation," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan...

Kundera sees creativity in decline.

2010-08-11 17:29:18

Day-Lewis learned Czech to playing Tomas, a womanizing doctor in Prague in 1968 in Philip Kaufman's acclaimed adaptation of the Milan Kundera novel. During the eight-month shoot, he remained in character on and off the set.

2007-11-28 14:37:57