SHORT TAKES RANDY BOYAGODA We Know What We’re Not Letter from Canada By the time you read this, I might be American. Probably not, but things feel frazzled and uncertain in Canada these...
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Your Dantes i. For my interview, the old man brought me to a sitting room on the main floor of his house, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out at a big, flat snowy field that...
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Donnafugata Dilemmas Randy Boyagoda Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel The Leopard fooled me twice when I recently read it. First, I thought what mattered most about the...
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Randy Boyagoda Sweet Nothings The Only Story Julian Barnes Knopf, $25.95, 272 pp. If there's a bookstore in the afterlife, Geoffrey Chaucer would probably pick up a copy of Julian Barnes's new...
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FICTION Great Friday Randy Boyagoda 1. "Good game," Prin said. "Good game. But next time, when I call the shot—" "I let you call the shots, Dad," Prin said. "Good son," Kingsley said. For the...
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Randy Boyagoda Epiphanies, Sort of C Tom McCarthy Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 310 pp. British writer Tom McCarthy's novel C provided me with my most ecstatic book experience of the past year. This...
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