French Writer Wins Nobel Prize
David Lodge’s latest novel showcases his ability to use sympathy and slapstick humor to create an appealingly hapless hero and to recount his adventures with Waugh-like verve.
Books of The Times: Hearing and Dreams Both Fading
In the end the fate of the life’s work of Marshall Frady came down to 15 minutes in a windowless room in Midtown.
Putting a Modest Price on a Storied Literary Life
The types of discourse explored in “Descartes’ Bones” are so different that the book has built-in organizational problems.
