An abundance of losers, lovable and otherwise
Entertainment |
August 15, 2008
THE EPONYMOUS first story in John Kessel’s new collection, “The Baum Plan for Financial Independence,” gets straight to the point. Read more
Articles by Anne Boles Levy
10 articles since 2004
Dealing with Jesus like a man
Entertainment |
March 29, 2008
Imust confess: I hadn’t read any Anne Rice before. Read more
Careening down a witty, neurotic road to nowhere
Entertainment |
April 13, 2007
SOME protagonists suck us in with their personality flaws, becoming
anti-heroes whose car wrecks of lives invite rubbernecking. Read more
Striking a fantastic blow on behalf of the magic of words
Entertainment |
November 4, 2006
Cubicles versus corporate America
Entertainment |
March 6, 2006
BACK when thumbscrews and the rack were accepted motivational tools,
nobody worried about job satisfaction. Read more
Too much talk clouds a surreal afterlife
Entertainment |
December 10, 2005
IT’S part of Jonathan Carroll’s gift that his fictional afterlife
seems more natural, more logical than a drearily nicey-nice place of
cherubs and pearly gates. Read more
Dark imaginings of the teen mind
Books |
July 17, 2005
If your baby brother’s a devil and you see nothing but darkness in
the adults around you, you’re probably just imagining things. Read more
Fighting bugs and the plot
Entertainment |
July 9, 2005
Battling giant man-eating bugs ought to make a ripping premise for a
fantasy novel. Read more
Come on in, surfer girls – the water’s fine
Entertainment |
February 28, 2005
Sure, girl surfers have plenty of worries before taking to the waves,
stuff that might never cross a man’s mind. Read more
A mystery populated by whales, red herrings
Entertainment |
June 30, 2004
Murder on the Leviathan A Novel Boris Akunin Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield Random House: 240 pp., $21.95 * In the first round of murders in “Murder on the Leviathan,” nine
of the victims are seated serenely around the kitchen table. Read more
