Em Forster

Julian Barnes, E.M. Forster, and the Message of the Unreliable Narrator

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Ford Madox Ford, Julian Barnes, Howards End, Man Booker Prize, E.M. Forster, Geoff Dyer, Nyt Book Review, Sense of Ending, The Good Soldier, Books News

What does an unreliable narrator tell us about ourselves?

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A Passage to Kabul

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, US Military, Isaf, Afghanistan, British Raj, European Union, US Foreign Policy, Imperialism, E.M. Forster, Counterinsurgency, Obama Afghanistan War, World News

A recent reading of E. M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, prompted me to reflect on the West's drawn out engagement in Afghanistan. The centerpi...

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Finding the Souls of Politicians Through the Books They Read

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: A Gift Upon the Shore, A Lesson Before Dying, Walter Mosley, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Books, The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, Caleb?S Crossing, Ernest J. Gaines, Hannah Coulter, A Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, E.M. Forster, Poltician, Man in the Dark, Wendell Berry, Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, Nadine Gordimer, Howards End, Burger?S Daughter, Rick Perry, Indignation Philip Roth, Reading, W.K. Wren, Books News

he question of whether a politician reads at all is a good one, and should be asked and answered more often. But the question of which books a politician has loved throughout his or her lifetime must be asked and answered.

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Do Books Influence Where You Go On Vacation?

Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Great Books, Don Delillo, Jack Kerouac, Julia Child, Haruki Murakami, Vacation Books, A Room With a View, E.M. Forster, Colson Whitehead, Books News

Like movies and TV, books have a way of reaching into our subconcious and taking hold, influencing our decisions on everything from what to wear, what...

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Spreading the Love: Book Reviews, Good and Bad

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zadie Smith, Book Reviews, Karen Russell, Swamplandia!, E.M. Forster, Books, Reading, Book Review, Books News

I've received a number of emails and comments lately, with various undertones of censure, stating that I only write good reviews. "Don't you have anything bad to say?" is the implied question.

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Unlisted -- But OK

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Just because you got some wonderful TV coverage doesn't get you on the list of "Reviewers' favorites from 2010."

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Movie Review: 127 Hours

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trainspotting, 127 Hours Movie Review, Kate Mara, Danny Boyle, Aron Ralston, Marshall Fine Movie Review, James Franco, Slumdog Millionaire, E.M. Forster, Amber Tamblyn, Entertainment News

Yeah, OK, Danny Boyle's 127 Hours is the movie about the guy who cut his arm off. But it's not just a movie about a guy cutting off his arm. Rather...

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Books That Sell

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Twitter was all atwitter about a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece which argued that the increasingly difficult economics of the publishing business will soon lead to advertising in ebooks.

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The Making of a Novel: Fighting Caricature

Jennie Nash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writing Characters, Caricatures, Fiction Writing, Em-Forster, Novel Writing, Books News

Of the three main characters in my novel-in-progress, there's still one I can't wrap my head around: the mother. Real characters make decisions. They change over the course of the story.

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Donald Windham Dead: Writer And Intimate Friend Of Truman Capote And Tennessee Williams Dies At 89

The New York Times | WILLIAM GRIMES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donald Windham Dead, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Donald Windham, Books, E.M. Forster, Thomas Mann, Authors, Books News

Donald Windham, a novelist and memoirist who left vivid pictures of literary life in New York, both fictional and factual, when he was an intimate of ...

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