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Salman Rushdie Creates an Engrossing East-Meets-West Novelnew

The bridge between these two worlds is the enchantress of the book's title, an Indian princess so beautiful and beguiling, Rushdie keeps her from the reader for more than half of the book--as if we, too, could not bear the full power of her charms.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  07-22-2008  |  Fiction

An Interview with Peter Careynew

The word "happy" does not fit easily into Peter Carey's mouth. Under normal circumstances, it dribbles off his lip on a trickle of sarcasm.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  04-15-2008  |  Fiction

Back in Vietnamnew

Even if you think you're done with Vietnam novels, Tree of Smoke could change your mind -- it belongs on the shelf next to Tim O'Brien, Larry Heinemann and Stephen Wright.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  12-11-2007  |  Fiction

Novel Ideas: Gifts for a Literary Holidaynew

For every personality, every reading level, there's a book out there waiting to provide that lucky Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanza celebrant with a few hours -- maybe a few weeks -- of pleasure.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  11-20-2007  |  Books

JIm Shepard: Dangerous, Dark Dispatchesnew

Like You'd Understand, Anyway is made up almost entirely of fictional testimonies from situations that quickly disintegrate -- and it's not hard to keep reading out of simple rubbernecking.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  11-13-2007  |  Fiction

Ha Jin's American Dreamsnew

In his mammoth new novel, A Free Life, he deploys the elements of his own powerful journey in an epic tale about a young couple at sea in America in the early '90s.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  11-06-2007  |  Fiction

Anne Enright's 'Buried Memories' is Bleak and Sexualnew

The Irish wake has become such a familiar trope in films and popular culture it takes a fiercely unsentimental novel like Anne Enright's The Gathering, recent winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, to club the blarney out of it.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  10-30-2007  |  Fiction

George Saunders's Magazine-Inspired Missionnew

Five years and a few National Magazine Awards later, we have this sparkling new essay collection, The Braindead Megaphone, which sends up a powerful warning flag about what the shouters and screamers of our contemporary mediascape are doing to American culture.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  10-30-2007  |  Nonfiction

Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' Hits 50new

As the novel's 50th anniversary approaches, some books with helpful hints about what that might have been are landing in bookstores.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  09-11-2007  |  Books

Spit Shine: 'Confessions of a Wallstreet Shoeshine Boy'new

A vivid portrait of a world run by those who mostly don't notice the little people, even when they are walking all over them.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  07-31-2007  |  Fiction

Who's Your Baghdaddy?new

The Washington Post reporter's examination of the Green Zone tells us a lot about how Iraq fell apart.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  03-20-2007  |  Nonfiction

Dumb and Dumbernew

The Occupation is one of the most concise, well-written portraits of Iraq on shelves today.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  03-20-2007  |  Nonfiction

Making the Listnew

Granta once again examines the best and brightest of a new generation.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  03-13-2007  |  Books

Sex and Religion, Faith and Skepticismnew

Elif Shafak is part of a new generation of Turks who are taking the novel -- a form which came to them from the West -- and using it to reimagine their society from within.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  02-27-2007  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Brotherhoodnew

This swift, weird little novel by Martin Amis is his best fiction in years.
Weekly Alibi  |  John Freeman  |  02-06-2007  |  Fiction

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