by NRB | 29 Oct 2015 | Fiction |
Weird, audacious, paradoxical and strange – this novel of a writer’s search for a missing painter offers much to think about. In the first pages of Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust describes the tendency of his narrator – also named Marcel – to fall asleep while reading in...
by NRB | 30 Apr 2015 | Fiction |
This new novel from the author of Leaving the Atocha Station presents a worldly and liberating take on modern fiction-writing. Ben Lerner’s 10:04 takes its title from Back to the Future, from the moment when lightning strikes a clock tower and sends Marty McFly, a...
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