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John Leonard, 69, the former editor of the New York Times Book Review, was "the smartest man who ever lived," according to Kurt Vonnegut. A prolific literary critic, Leonard often praised authors like Toni Morrison before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...know what's needed. They're an enormously talented team." There may be a comfort factor too in that CforC is a business for which profit isn't a dirty word. Yet it is close enough to the NGO world to understand the kinds of projects that are most critic-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extracting Good from Good Works | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...novel that any critic could describe as brisk or taut. (Not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.) Bolaņo is addicted to digressions, unsolved mysteries and seemingly extraneous details that actually do turn out to be extraneous. He loves trotting out characters we will never encounter a second time--a habit that can be exhausting. And whenever a character falls asleep, the reader should prepare to hear about his dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Book | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Knight got its darkness, look no further. Zack Snyder, director of 300, recently wrapped a movie adaptation of Watchmen, and this month Titan Books is publishing a new book by Gibbons called Watching the Watchmen, a gorgeous, oversized graphical history of how Watchmen came to be. TIME's book critic Lev Grossman sat down with Gibbons to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen's Dave Gibbons | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...novel that any responsible critic could describe with words like brisk or taut. (Not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.) That's not Bolaño's method. He's addicted to unsolved mysteries and seemingly extraneous details that actually do turn out to be extraneous, and he loves trotting out characters - indelible thumbnail sketches - whom we will never encounter a second time. If three people spend the night at a hotel, you can count on Bolaño to stop the story cold for 10 pages while he describes each of their dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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