by NRB | 13 Oct 2015 | Fiction |
This novel might be the most sustained, thoughtful interrogation of secrecy and exposure in the digital age. Jonathan Franzen has become one of those rare literary authors whose public persona casts a shadow over his works. After famously refusing to appear on Oprah’s...
by NRB | 26 Nov 2013 | Fiction |
The author of Gravity’s Rainbow takes on corporate greed, 9/11 and the dark unconscious of the internet; the result is surreal, satirical and far from trifling. To hold one of Thomas Pynchon’s novels unopened is to be on the cusp of near infinite possibility. There is...
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