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...other stories, of a jazzy, prewar North Korea, full of concert pianists and painters and their nude models. It's hard to believe that Pyongyang was once a glittery Little Shanghai of waltzing, snaggletoothed flappers and buxom barmaids pouring shots of absinthe. But geonbae to the day this particular fiction of Hwang's is translated back into reality...
...wealthy, evil �lite who secretly guide the affairs of men. It's a killer premise. That peal of thunder you just heard was the sound of Dan Brown smiting himself on the forehead for spending the past six years writing about Freemasons. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...about as compelling an image as you'll find in popular fiction, fusing the divine and the debased, the psychological and the theological, into a single rich, strange tableau that transmits a shock of truth. The institutions that we're used to thinking of as numinous and divine - churches, banks, governments, Tiger Woods - are showing disturbingly mortal tendencies. These days anyone can be dragged to earth, and when fools rush in, the angels are usually right behind them...
...James Wood’s popular class “Postwar British and American Fiction,” the first half of a lecture is invariably devoted to Wood reading aloud his favorite excerpts from the book under discussion. “Flip to page twenty-nine where Nabokov writes, ‘The cat, as Pnin would say, cannot be hid in a bag.’” Wood grins, before eagerly pushing forward, “Ah, yes, yes! There’s a great bit four pages earlier when Pnin gets dentures and Nabokov describes...
...World, whose life Ritwik reimagines in a book he is writing. He uses the story of Gilby, a middle-aged English governess to the family of a progressive official in early 20th century India, to revisit his country through the detached perspective of a foreigner. (See the top 10 fiction books...