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Terror and Narcissism A Day at the Beach By Helen Schulman Houghton Mifflin. 214 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, “The Writing on the Wall”; forthcoming, “The...

An Unlikely Convergence (November 2005)

An Unlikely Convergence Arthur and George By Julian Barnes Knopf. 400 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, "The Writing on the Wall, "Referred Pain" IT is unlikely that...

The Taming of a Skinhead (March 2005)

The Taming of a Skinhead A Changed Man By Francine Prose HarperCollins. 421 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author of the forthcoming 9/11 novel "The Writing on the Wall...

Doling Out Love in America and Russia (November 2002)

On Fiction Doling Out Love in America and Russia By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Richard Price's terrific new novel opens obliquely, with a five-page italicized Prologue. Ray Mitchell (introduced as...

Emigr?s Looking Homeward (September 2002)

On Fiction Emigrés Looking Homeward By Lynne Sharon Schwartz ROHINTON Mistry and Ha Jin are transplanted novelists who write about their native lands with bracing acuteness and a rueful mix...

Big Wars and Small Battles (July 2002)

On Fiction Big Wars and Small Battles By Lynne Sharon Schwartz SOME NOVELISTS are so single-minded that each of their books is a reworking of the same themes or obsessions: Jane Austen and...

Running Out of Luck (May 2002)

On Fiction Running Out of Luck By Lynne Sharon Schwartz American and British reviewers of Gert Hofmann's novels tend to remark that this prolific German writer should be more familiar...

Quests for Redemption (March 2002)

On Fiction Quests for Redemption By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Good news: In a world turned surreal, realism in literature lives on, at least in Britain. Both Ian McEwan, prolific and experienced,...

The High Costs of Living (January 2002)

On Fiction The High Costs of Living By Lynne Sharon Schwartz "The Fuehrer has decided to have Leningrad wiped from the face of the earth.... The problem of the survival of the population...

In the Beginning Was the Book (September 2001)

On Fiction In the Beginning Was the Book By Lynne Sharon Schwartz ORHAN Pamuk is not only a superb writer, he is a cultural phenomenon. Equally at home in the traditions of ancient Islamic...

Reimagining History (July 2001)

On Fiction Reimagining History By Lynne Sharon Schwartz ?ne Man's Justice (Harcourt, 276pp., $23.00) begins with a seemingly inconsequential moment on a packed train bound for the Japanese...

Corporate Sinners and Crossover Saints (May 2001)

On Fiction Corporate Sinners and Crossover Saints By Lynne Sharon Schwartz IN A 1989 interview in Salmagundi, the Chilean writer and political activist Ariel Dorfman described one of his...

Raising the Dead (March 2001)

On Fiction Raising the Dead By Lynne Sharon Schwartz In literature as in life, the dead forfeit all privacy. They become prey to speculation, research and imaginative reconstruction. What the...

Not By Facts Alone (January 2001)

On Fiction Not By Facts Alone By Lynne Sharon Schwartz A young researcher on the trail of an elusive dead writer meets a dauntingly combative woman scholar. They join forces, at first...

Playing with Realism (November 2000)

On Fiction Playing with Realism By Lynne Sharon Schwartz "THE MAIN DEFECT of this book is you, reader," declares the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by the prodigious...

The Allures of Form (May 2000)

The Allures of Form Dressing Up for the Carnival By Carol Shields Viking. 210 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, "In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy," and "Faceto...

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