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...ineffable moment of transcendence. In “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” Chabon fulfills that essay’s promise, and entertains wildly. Set in a fictional universe in which Jews inhabit not the Middle East but Alaska, Chabon’s novel tells the hardboiled tale of Meyer Landsman as he attempts to solve a strange and seemingly inconsequential murder while dealing with the burdens of his depression and alcoholism, his disintegrated marriage, and the coming reversion of his Jewish homeland to the American government. In both form and content, Chabon?...
...will be giving a reading at the concert, catapulted into the ranks of hipster icons after the 2000 publication of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand called the part-memoir, part-novel the “MTV” version of “The Catcher and the Rye” in an article in The New Yorker...
...University President Drew G. Faust’s welcome letter to the community last week. And while Faust’s gargantuan letter might have sent some running for the hills, FM went in search of past presidential letters to see how Faust’s latest e-novel stacks up. Faust: 1,822 words Beginning with a romanticized view of the typical Harvard student, and detailing… well, to be honest, FM didn’t get much farther than that. While Faust found “something wonderfully energizing about September in Harvard Yard...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...inconsiderable savings to charity, cuts up his credit cards and sets forth to find himself in the American vastness, aiming eventually to confront the Alaskan wilderness on his own. His is a sort of belated hippie odyssey and most of his adventures are fairly typical of that no-longer novel experience. He finds honest work and an agreeable boss in the midwestern wheat fields; he paddles prettily and adventurously down the Colorado River; he joins an older, good-natured couple in a commune; he eventually comes across an older man, a retired soldier (Hal Holbrook in a lovely performance...