A Note on Links
More Essays by Milan
Speaking of Distraction
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Another Review of The Novel: An Alternative History
The Orange Eats Creeps
The Unconsoled and the Annihilation of Plot
Sarah Weinman has a nice review of a book that caught my eye back when BookForum reviewed it a couple months ago.
The Ministry of Special Cases appears to echo Roth’s own gambit in moving away from direct Ashkenazi Jewish experience toward something broader. Where Roth, with Letting Go, attempted to write the great campus novel, Englander here seeks to comment on the effect of Argentina’s dirty war as filtered through its Jewish community. In both cases, the approach is ambitious and wide-ranging. Nevertheless, for a number of reasons, Englander’s maiden novel may wind up being viewed the same way as Roth’s has been: as a transitional work by a writer finally in sync with his natural voice.
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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