Sunday, June 18, 2006

Today's Inquirer reviews ...

Carlin Romano talks with Henning Mankell, creator of Kurt Wallander.

I wanted to like Bill Kauffman's Look Homeward, America, but found I couldn't: Alternative history's big helping of scorn.

Karl Kirchwey brings some perspective to Elizabeth Bishop's "Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments": History will be judge of poet Bishop's status.

Desmond Ryan follows Nicholas Shakespeare to an unlikely locale: A settler taps his roots in Tasmania .

Katie Haegele likes Gary Amdahl's Visigoth, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize: Tales in which the ancient urges are quite current .

David Montgomery is enthusiastic indeed about Barry Eisler's The Last Assassin: A thriller for brain and heart .

John Freeman is deeply affected by Andrew Holleran's Grief: A survivor of the AIDS age grapples with grief and intimacy

Sandy Bauers listens to a lot of Hemingway: Project to record Hemingway's works

1 comment:

  1. Well, you sure deconstructed Bill Kaufmann, Frank.

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