American Literature, Writ Large- March 30, 2006 An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable andor neglected books from the past.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Heroines of the Jazz Age- March 28, 2006 FLAPPERhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- March 26, 2006 In certain precincts occupied by certain members of the American intelligentsia, it has for some time been quite the fashion to ferret out racists in one's familial woodpile and then to write books about them. The ostensible purpose of these books is to provide intimate, confessional evidence of the degree to which racial prejudice has infiltrated every conceivable corner of American life. Their obvious if unstated purpose is to show how the (white) author has triumphed over his or her sordid...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Sorted And Sort of . . .- March 23, 2006 We are two book people -- she, the editor of Book World; he, The Post's book critic -- who agree on many marital matters but almost totally disagree on the most important thing of all: how to arrange our books.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Off the Market- March 21, 2006 NOT BUYING IThttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- March 19, 2006 Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished and appealing American novelists of the postwar years. From The Natural (1952) to The Assistant (1957) to The Magic Barrel (1958) to A New Life (1961) to Dubin's Lives (1979) -- to mention only five of the more than a dozen books he published -- he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. Along with his contemporary Saul Bellow and the younger (by...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... A Tar Heel Gives the Devils His Boo- March 14, 2006 TO HATE LIKE THIS IS TO BE HAPPY FOREVERhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Jonathan Yardley- March 12, 2006 Now in his early seventies, John McGahern was born and reared in rural Ireland. His family's circumstances were modest but not impoverished. His father, Frank, was a sergeant in the police, known as the Garda Force, and his mother, Sue, was a schoolteacher. The place in which their large family lived was primitive: "There was no running water then, other than in streams or rivers, no electricity, no TV, very few radios, and when newspapers were bought they were shared between houses. Each...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... A Hornet's Nest- March 7, 2006 SECOND HONEYMOONhttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... Toni Morrison: An Introduction- March 6, 2006 An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable andor neglected books from the past.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502370_xml/~3/24... |