Bookworm

For the first time, Louise Erdrich writes about the European side of her heritage. Her new novel is about the confrontation of German and Native American cultures in North Dakota between World Wars...

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company (Viking) Brian Hall-s novel of Lewis and Clark turns the extraordinary expedition upside down to find its dark underside-the ignorance, racism and despair at the heart of the American wilderness adventure.

A Whistling Woman (Knopf)In the second of this two-part interview, Dame Byatt talks about the interaction of chance and design in her newly completed quartet.

A Whistling Woman (Knopf)Dame Antonia Byatt began a quartet of novels twenty years ago with The Virgin in the Garden. She completes this huge project with A Whistling Woman.

A wild and beautiful writer, Geoff Dyer goes to Rome where he "basically did nothing all day"....

Dancer (Metropolitan) Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating, glittering, suspended in bright air. We discover how the subject, Nureyev, taught McCann a new way to write.

The nightmare continues. After the success of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby pursues his bleak vision in Waiting Period...

In the first of a two-part interview, Hubert Selby, Jr, now in his seventies, reviews and relives the tumult created by his debut novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn.

Ron Padgett tells the story of three writers who traveled from Tulsa to Manhattan and became the leaders of the second generation of the New York School of Poetry.

Jeffrey Eugenides' multi-generational novel in which a Greek-American family, replete with elements of Greek tragedy (incest, hermaphroditism), witnesses American history.