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...forte. So, I took almost immediate affection to the 9mm Glock, with its three internal safety mechanisms that promised me the lowest probability of accidentally hitting one of the many non-stationary targets available at the range. Later, I confided my preferences for the Glock to Lisa M. Giroux, a second-year law student and financial officer of the gun club. Giroux seconded that emotion, replying, “I love my Glock...
...Trujillo transposed in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $25) is heartless and uncannily shrewd, a man whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads...
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...from more languages than most of us could ever hope to learn, and his versatility is only surpassed by his virtuosity. Ferry delivered a delightful poetry reading last Friday night at the Sackler Art Museum that featured selections from his new translation of The Epistles of Horace (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Reading both from the new translation and from works previously published, Ferry demonstrated to everyone present why he has long been regarded as one of the best translators of poetry into English...