Archive for May 2009
Alice Munro wins acclaimed prize
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: May 29, 2009
Canadian short-story author Alice Munro has emerged victorious from a clash of the world’s literary giants to win the £60,000 ($94,900 U.S.) Man Booker International prize. The 77-year-old writer was picked from a lineup of towering international talent that included V. S. Naipaul, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Carey, and Joyce Carol Oates. The prize is [...]
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New York Times Book Review
- Stephen King’s Glass MenagerieWhen an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.
- The Critic’s CriticA valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.
- Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and IdolsThis novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
- Animal PlanetAmy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.
- Happy DaysAn argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.
