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Gordon Houser
Gordon Houser is a writer and editor in Newton, Kansas.
Falling Man
In his 14th novel, Don DeLillo addresses universal themes through the particularity of two lives affected by the events of 9/11....
Four Souls
One of the rewards of reading Louise Erdrich’s fiction is that she takes us into a world few people know, that of the Ojibwe people, who follow traditional wa...
Doubting Tom
This first novel is getting a lot of attention because its author, New Republic book critic James Wood, is known for his merciless criticism of well-known novelists....
Family Matters, by Rohinton Mistry
Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry's novel is as straightforward and unpretentious as its title. No pyrotechnics, no metafictional irony, no attempts to draw attention to itself....
The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Canadian writer Yann Martel, winner of the 2002 Booker Prize, sets up his delightful story with a clever "author's note" in which an elderly man in Pondicherry, India, tells the author, "I have a s...
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Often we look to find ourselves, to learn from our forebears who we are. If that past--unreliable at best--is unavailable, we may have to use our imaginations to reconstruct it....
Families disrupted
Tolstoy's dictum that "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is played out in each of these fine novels....
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The Body Artist, by Don DeLillo
"Time seems to pass," the opening line of Don DeLillo's 12th novel, could sum up this spare, evocative work....
Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers
The abundance of ideas Richard Powers throws at readers can feel overwhelming....