Archive for July, 1995
- Anne Tyler’s “Ladder of Years” • July 26, 1995
Anne Tyler's "Ladder of Years" poses an awful lot of tough questions about women's liberation, and Tyler's lack of straight answers is at once artful and irritating.
- Michael Chabon Interview • July 26, 1995
A transcript of an interview with Michael Chabon hosted on America Online in July of 1995 and sponsored by Critics' Choice.
- Michael Chabon’s “Wonder Boys” • July 10, 1995
This book review was originally published on Critics’ Choice on July 10, 1995.
Three-time novelist Grady Tripp may have lost his writer’s acumen, but his imagination is certainly intact; because it takes a supreme effort of creativity to end up in the massive pickle that Grady, the protagonist of Michael Chabon’s new novel, Wonder Boys, has [...]
- Madison Smartt Bell’s “All Souls’ Rising” • July 1, 1995
Once you've waded far enough in, "All Souls' Rising" pulls you away with the tide and gives you a thorough drubbing for the next 400 pages. Along the way Bell provides a fascinating historical panorama of colonial Haiti, and one that reaffirms the author as one of extraordinary scope and talent.
