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Paid articleTyler's Triumph (January 2010)
On Fiction Tyler’s Triumph By Brooke Allen ONE VERY SELDOM comes away from a novel nowadays wishing that it were longer. The age of the word processor and the eclipse of the publisher’s...
Paid articleRoth's Curtain of Narcissism (May 2009)
On Fiction Roth’s Curtain of Narcissism By Brooke Allen THE MOST IMPRESSIVE American novelists of the generation that came of age after World War II are Philip Roth and John Updike, both born...
Paid articleJohn Irving on John Irving (September 2009)
On Fiction John Irving on John Irving By Brooke Allen When they discuss the history of the novel, college English professors tend to divide practitioners into Richardson types...
Paid articleThe 'Loneliness and Bewilderment' of John Cheever (March 2009)
On Fiction The ‘Loneliness and Bewilderment’ of John Cheever By Brooke Allen BEFORE HIS DEATH on January 27, John Updike completed a piece for the New Yorker (published March 9) that was...
Paid articleLegitimate Aesthetic Grounds (January 2009)
On Fiction Legitimate Aesthetic Grounds By Brooke Allen Virago Press was founded in 1973. According to its editors, four years later the appearance of Elaine Showalter’s first book, A...
Paid articleWhere the Protagonist Is Time (November 2008)
On Fiction Where the Protagonist Is Time By Brooke Allen Philip Hensher, the 43-year-old British novelist who has won a Somerset Maugham Award and been a Man Booker Prize runner-up, is an...
Paid articleA Tragicomic Meditation on Old Age (September 2008)
On Fiction A Tragicomic Meditation on Old Age By Brooke Allen A new novel by David Lodge is one of life’s few reliable pleasures. Beginning with The Picturegoers (1960), Lodge’s 14 novels...
Paid articleA Matter of Inheritance (May 2009)
On Fiction A Matter of Inheritance By Brooke Allen Reading a novel by Richard Russo is a bit like watching a good athlete perform: There is a natural grace that makes an inherently...
Paid articleThe Novel is Alive and Well (March 2008)
On Fiction The Novel Is Alive and Well By Brooke Allen THE INITIAL YEARS of adulthood, when the extreme self-absorption of youth confronts the depressing reality of the world’s indifference,...
Paid articleAn American Parody (January 2008)
On Fiction An American Parody By Brooke Allen THE EARLY 1970s saw the United States deeply involved in a struggle over the limits of a President’s power that was finally resolved in...
Paid articleLyricism Battling with Clich? (November 2007)
On Fiction Lyricism Battling with Cliché By Brooke Allen IN THE INTRODUCTION to one of his early novels, William Maxwell spoke of trying to include “as much poetry as prose fiction can...
Paid articleBernard Malamud Close Up (September 2007)
On Fiction Bernard Malamud Close Up By Brooke Allen KNOWING ABOUT THE LIFE of a writer is not always a necessary part of appreciating his or her creations. Indeed, a whole school of thought...
Paid articleMaking a Mess (August 2007)
On Fiction Making aMess By Brooke Allen WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between literature and romance fiction? It’s easy enough to place honest practitioners of the latter art, like Georgette Heyer...
Paid articleAn Impassioned Warning (March 2007)
On Fiction An Impassioned Wa r ni ng By Brooke Allen ONE OF THE CHARACTERS in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 192 pp., $22.00) has just finished writing a piece of...
Paid articleThe Real Pynchon and Mailer Stand Up (January 2007)
On Fiction The Real Pynchon and Mailer Stand Up By Brooke Allen One of the unchanging characteristics of hu­ man nature is that as we age we become more distinctly ourselves....
Paid articleCritical Duties (January 2006)
On Fiction Critical Duties By Brooke Allen READERS OF The New Leader over the past several decades would name fiction as one of its central concerns. But this was not always the case: When...
Paid articleBurdens of Longevity (November 2005)
On Fiction Burdens of Longevity By Brooke Allen Certain authors are indelibly associated with particular subjects. John Le Carré, for instance, made the inbred world of Cold War espionage...
Paid articleDistinguished Disabilities (September 2005)
On Fiction Distinguished Disabilities By Brooke Allen Alison Lume is one of the most reliably satisfying novelists alive, if not the most prolific. Her 10 rather slim novels, over a career...
Paid articleTransatlantic Quests (July 2005)
On Fiction Transatlantic Quests By Brooke Allen Setting out to write a really long book nowadays— 700 pages or up—takes a certain amount of nerve as well as ego. The doorstopper novel was...
Paid articleAdventures in Pop Culture (May 2005)
On Fiction Adventures in Pop Culture By Brooke Allen Although Umberto Eco has certainly proved himself as a novelist-The Name of the Rose'was one of the major bestsellers of the 1980s-he has...
Paid articleThe Damned and the Beautiful (March 2005)
On Fiction The Damned and the Beautiful By Brooke Allen Kazuo Ishiguro, now 50 years old, is a much celebrated and decorated writer. He received the 1989 Booker Prize, he is an Officer of...
Paid articleDifferent Visions (February 2005)
On Fiction Different Visions By Brooke Allen American innocence is a well-worn theme of our literature. Henry James made it his great subject. Mark Twain mined it too, though in his...
Paid articleMistaken Identities (November 2004)
On Fiction Mistaken Identities By Brooke Allen ALL HUMAN BEINGS seek a transcendent meaning for their lives: a personal myth, as it has been called, or simply a significant pattern. Many,...
Paid articleFrom the Shadows of the Past (September 2004)
On Fiction From the Shadows of the Past By Brooke Allen DURING THE 1960s and '70s the brilliant young Philip Roth gave us an entirely new picture of what it meant to grow up Jewish in...
Paid articleHistory's Prisoners (July 2004)
On Fiction History's Prisoners By Brooke Allen Just as the 12th century became known as the Age of Faith, the 20th may well go down in history as the Age of Ideology. In attempting to replace...
Paid articleLives in Miniature (May 2004)
On Fiction Lives in Miniature By Brooke Allen Despite the feints and stratagems of the Modern and Postmodern movements, the short story form perfected more than a century ago by Guy de...
Paid articleSchoolteachers Unbound (March 2004)
On Fiction Schoolteachers Unbound By Brooke Allen With the senescence and passing of the generation that came of age around the time of World War II, biographers are busy summing up the...
Paid articleTrue Believers (January 2004)
On Fiction True Believers By Brooke Allen John le Carre's classic The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is still, 40 years on, many readers' choice as the best spy thriller in the English...
Paid articleUnprepared for Peace (September 2003)
On Fiction Unprepared for Peace By Brooke Allen If I had to pick one phrase to describe the 20th century, it would be the "century of warfare." In those 100 years wars went from being...
Paid articleBad Behavior Boys (July 2003)
On Fiction Bad Behavior Boys By Brooke Allen Writing to a friend just a few months after his arrival in New York, the provincial young John O'Hara asked a little ruefully: "Does it sound...
Paid articleMidlife Passions (May 2003)
On Fiction Midlife Passions By Brooke Allen Middle age is supposed to be a time of cooling down. Passion has safely receded into the past; marriage dulls the emotions with custom and...
Paid articleFrom Superman to Everyman (March 2003)
On Fiction From Superman to Everyman By Brooke Allen Novelists can be roughly divided into those who go for the bigpicture, and those who dwell on the small one: the polymath who,...
Paid articleForeign Voices (January 2003)
On Fiction Foreign Voices By Brooke Allen Ever since World War II Japan has been our partner, whether willingly or unwillingly, in the creation of a consumer society and the...
Paid articleA Child's Ignorance and Knowingness (November 2002)
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Paid articleExercises in the Sensational (January 2002)
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Paid articleA Different Kind of Mystery (January 2001)
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On Fiction Twilight Triumphs By Brooke Allen That at the age of 68, and with 25 books behind him, Philip Roth still has so much to say and still says it as well as he does in his new...
Paid articleThe Problem with Historical Novels (March 2000)
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Paid articleUnraveling A Historical Moment (December 1999)
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Paid articleTwo Approaches to Suffering (August 1999)
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Paid articlePolitics Parading as Fiction (March 1999)
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Paid articleWolfe's Noble Animal (December 1998)
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Paid articleFacing the Sting of Anti-Semitism (November 1998)
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Paid articleOur Last Taboo (September 1998)
Writers & Writing OUR TABOO By Brooke Allen A. N. Wilson will never be a first-rate novelist, but in the course of his extraordinarily prolific career—not yet 50, he is the author of 17 novels...
Paid articleRoadside Philosophers (June 1998)
Writers & Writing ROADSIDE PHILOSOPHERS By Brooke Allen CORMAC McCarthy published five novels between 1965 and 1985, before he undertook the Border Trilogy that he has just completed with the...
Paid articleJesus Lives (June 1998)
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Paid articleA Novel as Rich as London (February 1998)
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Paid articleRemnants of Love (December 1997)
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Paid articleUpdike Redux (December 1997)
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Paid articleThe Power of Positive Proust (September 1997)
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Paid articleA Spycatching Novel (July 1997)
Writers & Writing A SPYCATCHING NOVEL By Brooke Allen Every country creates its own national mythology, and self-flagellation tends to be almost as consistent a theme as self-congratulation....
Paid articleEnjoying the God-Role (May 1997)
Writers & Writing ENJOYING THE GOD-ROLE By Brooke Allen In Muriel Spark's novels the most memorable and villainous characters have tended to be those who dominate and mold others, who impose...
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