November 21, 2006 How much do Pynchon and other postmodern writers owe George Eliot’s Middlemarch? Read more
November 21, 2006 Robert Altman, whose cinematic feats include adaptations of Raymonds Chandler and Carver, died today at 81. (Via.) Read more
November 21, 2006 Daniel Kehlmann has won the Kleist-Preis for Measuring the World, an entertaining book recently translated into English and published in the States. (Via.) Read more
November 21, 2006 Jeremy Harding traveled to Beruit to meet Elias Khoury (Gate of the Sun). Read more
November 21, 2006 “Baste me in butter and call me Slappy.” The LRB personals get their own book. Read more
