John Wilson Without Artifice ? My Struggle Book Three: Boyhood Karl Ove Knausgaard translated by Don Bartlett Archipelago Books, $27, 427 pp. When I first read Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids...
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John Wilson My mother was still very much herself when she turned eighty-five—in possession of her “faculties,” as the characters in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori say. Within a few months, though,...
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John Wilson Every once in a while, a book appears as if out of nowhere, uncanny in its authority, combining the shock of the new with the shock of recognition. Michael Robbins's Alien vs. Predator...
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A Wormhole through the Cheese John Wilson In 2008, John Sutherland published a book called Magic Moments, in which he recounted pivotal encounters with books (and movies and music) from the...
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John Wilson Murder, He Wrote The Troubled Man Henning Mankell Translated by Laurie Thompson Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 384 pp. In 1991, in Sweden, Henning Man-kell published a novel about a...
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John Wilson A Sensitive Head Light of the World The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times Benedict XVI, interviewed by Peter Seewald. Translated by Michael J. Miller and Adrian J....
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BOOKS Christmas Critics John Wilson Biographers are routinely tempted to slide into sycophancy on the one hand or contempt for their subject on the other. In Muriel Spark: The Biography (W. W....
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