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A slap in the face for the PC brigade

Independent, Ireland | 2 days ago

The Slap has been getting stick for some time now. Longlisted for this year's Booker, the novel by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas has been...

Charles P. Pierce Heard 'round the world

Boston Globe | 19 days ago

The death of Bobby Thomson has prompted an outbreak of general baseball nostalgia and, unlike most such outbreaks, this one is actually justified...

Report: Mexicans Role Play Illegal Border Crossing For Fun

The New York Observer | 663 days ago

This is like something straight out of a Don DeLillo novel. According to video report on Time Magazine's Web site, middle class Mexicans are paying to roleplay crossing the U.S. border illegally. According to Ioan Grillo, who filed the night-vision green

A one-word response to Engdahl

guardian.co.uk | 703 days ago

Readers everywhere will be bemused by this perverse outburst. It's up to the Swedish Academy to whom its money goes, but a resignation might be called for. Not by Americans, but by the rest of the world, whom US writers have so long entertained and enligh

Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Reading Mailer’s Mail; Suffering with Saul Bellow

The New York Observer | 706 days ago

Of all the extraordinary items in the selection from Norman Mailer’s correspondence served up in the Oct. 6 issue of The New Yorker, perhaps the most astonishing is the letter Mailer wrote to Don DeLillo in 1988, when Libra (Penguin, $15), Mr. DeLillo’

Let Us Now Praise Mostly Men

The New York Observer | 715 days ago

As a companion to the magazine's 75th Anniversary issue, Esquire's Web site features a list of "75 Books Every Man Should Read." The display copy calls it, "An unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest works of literature ever published