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America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives.
"The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black intellectual novel
David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
The man who could have saved the dignity of the White House offers Practical Advice From a Guy Who Could Have Saved the Dignity of the Executive Office
An Oldsmobile ad on the New York Times Web site links to a "special supplement" that showcases a collection of articles and reviews by high-brow writers and raises questions about using the same "content" for editorial and advertising purposes.
Vince Passaro on Cormac McCarthy's 'Cities of the Plain,' conclusion to the trilogy of novels that began with National Book Award winner, 'All the Pretty Horses'
"Underworld," Don DeLillo's ambitious attempt at the Great American Novel, prompts one to quote Henry James: "I liked all of it, except the whole thing."
Beyond the Multiplex
Writing in the Margins
Don DeLillo
Sentenced to death
Body and soul