'Reading for My Life': a critic's lifelong engagement with literature The Seattle Times "Reading for My Life," an eclectic and enormously appealing collection of 50 book reviews and essays by Leonard, is easy to put down and pick up — except when it isn't. Spanning five decades, the pieces vary in length from two to 13 pages, ... |
 The Guardian | A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes NPR A prolific writer, Fuentes wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as political nonfiction and essays that criticized the Mexican government during the 1980s and '90s. Along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar, ... Remembering Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's Grand Man of Letters Deaths elsewhere for May 17, 2012 |
 CBS News | Carlos Fuentes dies at 83; Mexican novelist Los Angeles Times The prolific author of more than 20 books, including novels, short story collections, essays and often-scolding commentaries, Fuentes was among those most responsible for raising the profile of the hemisphere's Spanish-language literature in the second ... Remembering Mexican Writer Carlos Fuentes Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dead Carlos Fuentes Leaves Behind a Lasting Legacy at Age 83 |
Marilynne Robinson's 'When I Was a Child I Read Books': Essays on faith, reading Washington Post “I have spent most of my life,” Robinson tells us, “studying American history and literature. . . . The magnanimity of [America's] greatest laws and institutions as well as its finest poetry and philosophy move me very deeply. |
'Game of Thrones': George RR Martin fights the genre wars Los Angeles Times Yet even when separated from literature, popular fiction was seen as a threat. Henry James warned against it in his 1884 essay “The Art of Fiction,” aiming squarely at Robert Louis Stevenson, who had just written the well-liked adventure tale Treasure ... |
'Farther Away: Essays' by Jonathan Franzen Boston Globe By Michael Washburn To the small population that tends to the affairs of American literary culture, Jonathan Franzen can't be ignored. His books, most notably the novels “The Corrections” and “Freedom,” reliably garner either critical lamentation or ... |
 The Atlantic | Marilynne Robinson on Democracy, Reading, and Religion in America The Atlantic In a new collection of essays, Marilynne Robinson critiques this passive stance, insisting that democracy is an ongoing negotiation that requires creativity, compassion, and vigilance. When I Was a Child I Read Books is the fourth book of nonfiction ... |
Critical analysis of literature writers Pakistan Daily Times The first critical essay comprises the personality and works of Joginder Paul through a book compiled by Dr Irtiza Karim titled 'Joginder Paul, Zikr, Fikr, Fun'. If we concentrate on the pattern of Synthetic Criticism, we can easily appreciate ... |
English Renaissance Literature Expert Promotes Lofty Poetic Standards San Antonio Express William Guy, a specialist in English Renaissance literature, publishes his latest book of poems, Defunctive Music, to herald a new renaissance for English poetry. It is a showcase of refined literary talent at its best, showing what present-day poetry ... |
 Library Journal | Pleasures of the Literary Garden | The Reader's Shelf, May 15, 2012 Library Journal $14.95), Eleanor Perényi's brief, wide-ranging essays are filled with literary references and blunt opinions—and sharp and fine writing. In addition to beans, dahlias, lilies, and onions, she covers the alarmist nature of weather forecasts, ... |
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