Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
The first book in Jon Scieszka’s new series introduces Jack Truck and his buddy Dump Truck Dan, best friends who share a passion for destruction. , Children’s Books: Keep On Truckin’, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/books/review/Cowles-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss, http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Books.xml, NYT > Books, http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif,
NY Times reviews, 2, ny-times-reviews
Sphere: Related Content
Filed under: NY Times, Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
Looking through the photographs I took in Tewkesbury in May, I found two pictures of Chuck Pavey and his floodwater hand. There’s Pavey, a 66-year-old retired electrician in a Manchester United hooded top, a wispy white pageboy haircut and dark glasses, standing by a wall on the bank of the River Avon. He’s holding his […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
When Raymond Williams died suddenly, aged 66, in January 1988, estimations of him were sharply divided. There were those who regarded him as a deservedly influential literary and cultural critic, a major socialist theorist and an exemplary instance of the union of intellectual seriousness and political purpose. There were others who thought he had for […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
Towards the end of Bernhard Schlink’s best-known novel, The Reader, the narrator is pondering his future after taking his state exam in law. He has just seen his former lover, Hanna Schmitz, convicted of war crimes: she had been a concentration camp guard, something he hadn’t known when she seduced him as a 15-year-old boy. […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
If you set aside the incomparable cruelty and stupidity of human beings, surely our most persistent and irrational activity is to sleep. Why would we ever allow ourselves to drop off if sleeping was entirely optional? Sleep is such a dangerous place to go to from consciousness: who in their right mind would give up […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
, Short Cuts · Jeremy Harding tries to listen to the World Service, http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/hard01_.html, http://www.lrb.co.uk/homerss.xml, London Review of Books, http://www.lrb.co.uk/assets/images/lrb_160_w_on_b.gif,
London review, 1, london-review
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
, In the Park · Peter Campbell: Frank Gehry’s Pavilion, http://lrb.co.uk/v30/n15/camp01_.html, http://www.lrb.co.uk/homerss.xml, London Review of Books, http://www.lrb.co.uk/assets/images/lrb_160_w_on_b.gif,
London review, 1, london-review
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
New Labour’s exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister’s wife, […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
In the fall of 2002, in the company of a dog named Charlie Chaplin and an architect named Michael Meredith, I set out to drive a 1960 Chevy Apache 10 pick-up truck, at 45 mph, from far west Texas to New York City: 2364 miles through desert, suburbs, forests, lake-spattered plains, mountains, farmland, more suburbs […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Conrad
‘Netherland’ is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred years ago on Manhattan Island as New Amsterdam, in what was then the territory of […]
Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »