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Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) I should not have been surprised that the NYT list skewed heavily away from genre fiction—but missing Susanna Clarke’s world-changing doorstopper of a debut is a particular head-scratcher. On paper, the book still seems daunting in an almost comical way: a Regency-era epic (with footnotes and extensive digressions on philosophy, magic, politics
Technically a novella, but discussed enough as a story that I’ll include it here (same goes for a couple of others on this list, including “The Metamorphosis”). It has, as a work of literature, inspired a seemingly endless amount of speculation, criticism, unpacking, and stance-taking. “In comment after comment, article after article, the evidence has been sifted through and judgments delivered,”
Michael S. A. Graziano on the Evolution of Animal Consciousness Self-replicating, bacterial life first appeared on Earth about 4 billion years ago. For most of Earth’s history, life remained at the single-celled level, and nothing like a nervous system existed until around 600 or 700 million years ago (MYA). In the attention schema theory, consciousness depends on the nervous system processing inf
The following is from the introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. * From Seppuku to Meltdown I once heard the story that when jazz drummer Buddy Rich was being admitted to a hospital, the nurse at the front desk asked him if he had any allergies. “Only to country and western music,” he replied. In my case, my only allergy is to Japan’s so-called “I novel”—the form of autobiogra
10 Little-Known Children’s Books by Famous Writers Featuring at Least Two of the Best Titles Ever Written This week, Duke University Press is reissuing James Baldwin’s children’s book, Little Man, Little Man. If you had no idea that James Baldwin ever wrote a children’s book, you’re not alone. In fact, quite a number of established literary writers have dabbled in kids lit. Most people know about
Edward Gorey’s Illustrated Covers for Literary Classics Spooky Treatments of Kafka, Dickens, Conrad, and More Between 1953 and 1960, before he was a household name as the master of the cutely macabre, Edward Gorey worked as a book designer and illustrator for Doubleday Anchor. During his tenure, he designed some fifty book covers (and in some cases, drew inside illustrations) for their new paperba
Art Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities "Elsewhere is a negative mirror." Sometimes I like to think that Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities saved my life, but it might be more accurate to say it saved my mind. I was working a tedious job at my college over one summer, living in a strange dorm room with no internet. My relationship had just exploded, and I was very depressed; I only knew one
Raymond Carver 14 inclusions: Joyce Carol Oates John Updike 13 inclusions: Flannery O’Connor 12 inclusions: Richard Ford Tim O’Brien 11 inclusions: John Cheever Tobias Wolff 10 inclusions: Donald Barthelme 9 inclusions: James Baldwin Ann Beattie William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway James Joyce Jamaica Kincaid Edgar Allan Poe Eudora Welty * The Authors Inspiring the Least Consensus: (the authors with
10 Japanese Books by Women We’d Love to See in English Strong Women, Soft Power When my fellow translators and I first got together to chat about ideas for the latest installment in this series, 10 Japanese works of fiction by women we’d love to see in English, we all had the impression that a fair number of Japanese women writers were represented in translation. But in fact, when we looked at the
The following is the introduction to Haruki Murakami’s Wind/Pinball: Two Novels, out August 4th from Knopf. The Birth of My Kitchen Table Fiction Most people—by which I mean most of us who are a part of Japanese society—graduate from school, then find work, then, after some time has passed, get married. Even I originally intended to follow that pattern. Or at least that was how I imagined things w
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