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Best European Fiction: New Anthology Broadens American Readers' Horizons

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Zadie Smith, Short Stories, Best European Fiction, Book Publishing, Publishing, Literature in Translation, Best European Fiction 2010, New Books, European Fiction, Books, Translation, Foreign Language, Anthologies, Books News

Even the most dedicated fiction readers might have trouble naming contemporary authors from Macedonia, Liechtenstein or Slovenia. Dalkey Archive Press...

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News
Anis Shivani

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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LA Times' Best Fiction And Nonfiction Of 2009

Posted 12.04.2009 | Books

Read More: A Bright and Guilty Place, Zadie Smith, The Angel's Game, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, Orhan Pamuk, The Anthologist, LA Times Best Books, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Books, Cheever, Best Books, Bestsellers, Best Books of 2009, Books News

The Los Angeles Times has joined the ever-growing crowd with its own "Best of 2009" lists -- separate for fiction and non-fiction, 25 books each. The ...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Mentors Muses and Monsters, Book Reviews, Stones Into Schools, Changing My Mind, Charles Dickens, Yours Ever, Reviews, Zadie Smith, Greg Mortenson, Too Much Happiness, Changing My Mind Zadie Smith, An Infinity of Things, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Stones Into Schools, Charles Dickens Biography, Julie Powell Cleaving, Books, Alice Munro, Dear Granny Smith, Julie Powell, Cleaving, Books News

Here's your weekly book review roundup, in case you missed the weekend's reviews in the midst of your food coma. "Family Album", Penelope Lively The ...

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The Meritless Nobel Prize?

Scott Tomford | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Horace Engdahl, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize Literature, Zadie Smith, Fiction, American Fiction, Philip Roth, Media News
Scott Tomford

Thursday morning, somebody will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature... and that somebody probably won't be American.

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