From NYRB, Nathan, farewell: A review of Philip Roth's Exit Ghost. A review of Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature by Asja Szafraniec. The Satirical Intellectual: Alexander Theroux on the paradoxes of love and the importance of plenitude and redemption. A review of Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews, Vol. 1: The 1920s and '30s and Vol. 2: The 1930s and '40s. Movable Types: James Wood on how War and Peace works. A review of Modernism: the Lure of Heresy - - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay (and more). Normal life taken to the max: The Spanish novelist Arturo Perez-Reverte tells Miranda France why he writes about war (and more). From Out, in the aftermath of Stonewall, a generation of writers began chronicling the evolving fortunes of gay Americans with unflinching honesty. Now they find themselves tackling a subject they once barely dared hope they would live to experience — growing old. This perfect book: Ira Levin should be remembered for his dystopian novel This Perfect Day, which ranks alongside Brave New World and 1984. A review of Madame Proust by Evelyn Bloch-Dano. A review of Ezra Pound: Poet. Vol 1: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A David Moody. Jane Austen must die: Look, we love us some 19th-Century heroines like the rest of y'all, but the overused archetype is doing more damage than good—let’s get some wicked-women lit already. Norman Mailer's last major public interview has been made available online by the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
