Death by Landscape
/Annie Dillard’s distilled, introspective voice described marvels in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but can it power a novel? John Cotter tacks down The Maytrees.
Read MoreSome Assembly Required
/Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero is a jarring experience, composed offractured images and plot strands. Karen Vanuska helps us put itspieces together.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Himself
/The only trouble with Sean O’Casey’s brilliant plays is that they overshadowhis magnificent memoirs. In our monthly feature, Steve Donoghuetries to even the scales.
Read MoreTwo from Black Ocean Press
/Chris Tonelli tackles the wily metaphysics of Zachary Schomburg’sThe Man Suit and Paula Cisewski’s Upon Arrival.
Read MoreWishful Thinking
/Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us has an irresistible premise: whatwould happen on Earth if human beings suddenly disappeared? SteveDonoghue cheerfully follows Weisman’s lead.
Read MoreEx Cathedra
/Ignazio de Vega conducts a careful exegesis of Pope Benedict XVI’sJesus of Nazareth and discovers in it a remarkable quality: a spiritof reconciliation
Read MoreJuly 2007 Issue
/Photo by Kristen Lewis
Read MoreUseful Disasters
/Like The Kite Runner before it, A Thousand Splendid Suns ownsreal estate on the top of the bestseller list. Sam Sacks dares tounlock the secret of Khaled Hosseini.
Read MorePeer Review: Sex on the Beach
/In our monthly feature, Sam Sacks clambers over the mountain ofreviews of Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, spotting perspicacity,purple prose, and possible pickpocketing along the way.
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