Monthly Archives: August 2007

Confession

The Washington Post has a review by Jim Krusoe of Percival Everett’s The Water Cure.

The narrator of The Water Cure is a man whose 11-year-old daughter has been raped and killed. He now is in the process of torturing her murderer, but this, as they say, is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Liberated Times

The New York Times has a review (and the first chapter) of Glen Duncan’s The Bloodstone Papers.

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The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫)

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Recommended with reservations.

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. . .and His Lovely Wife

WHYY’s Fresh Air has an interview with Connie Schultz, author of . . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man.

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Travel

The Complete Review alerts us to Condé Nast Traveler‘s list of “The 86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time.”

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Helen DeWitt has an interesting post on punctuation.

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They'll Need a Crane

The Guardian has a review of Edmund White’s Hotel de Dream.

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The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫)

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Recommended with reservations.

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