Inside the NYTBR
A New York Times Book Review editor revealed the publication’s secrets at Harvard last week. Gawker reports.
A New York Times Book Review editor revealed the publication’s secrets at Harvard last week. Gawker reports.
Praising Remainder, Rupert Thomson found “echoes of Beckett, Flann O’Brien too,” but also “a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit” all author Tom McCarthy’s own. The book is just out here.
J.M. Coetzee applauds the intelligence and passion of Hugo Claus’ poetry, “a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible.”
“The most honest tell you that they’ll pretty much publish anything if it shuts Bret Easton Ellis up.”
The best of Steven Cloud’s Boy on a Stick & Slither (BOASAS) comics recall Calvin & Hobbes, and Linus’ existential philosophizing in the glory days of Peanuts. The strip has reached new heights lately — “Champions of Winning” is a recent favorite — but it’s always been good. “Conformity” has hung on the Maud Household’s pantry since 2002. “Don’t forget! . . .