On the back cover of the December 1995 issue of the Parisian journal magazine littéraire there is an impressive full-page, color advertisement for the French editions of Paul Auster's work. The...
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In the following review, See offers positive assessment of City of Glass.
“I have come to New York because it is the most forlorn of places, the most abject. The brokenness is everywhere, th...
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In the following essay, Lewis examines the narrative and thematic characteristics of Auster's “anti-detective” fiction and the elusive authorial presence of Auster.
The mystery...
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In the following review, Mundy offers unfavorable assessment of Hand to Mouth.
“We're talking about your life,” proclaims a character in Paul Auster's first novel, Squee...
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In the following review, Connolly offers unfavorable assessment of Hand to Mouth.
I hope that this book doesn't mean that there's something the matter with Paul Auster. He is the most...
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In the following review, Yardley offer positive assessment of Timbuktu.
To say that Paul Auster's new novel is a departure from his previous work is true but inadequate, for each of his nove...
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In the following review, Shepard offers positive assessment of Timbuktu, though finds fault in lapses of self-consciousness and overstatement in the novel.
At least since Alexander Pope, literature...
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In the following review, Levi offers positive assessment of Timbuktu.
On the cover of Paul Auster's latest novel, Timbuktu, half the face of a dog peers out at the prospective buyer, daring ...
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In the following essay, Rowen examines Auster's detective-like investigations into the role of language as a medium of representation and the nature of reality in the modern world as portrayed ...
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In the following review, Mallon offers positive assessment of Leviathan.
Some years ago, in a burst of pre-p.c. phallocentrism, Bernard Malamud responded to an interviewer's question about t...
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Wayne Wang's "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" won the award for best film and its star, Henry O, took honors for best actor Saturday at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.The 58-year-o...
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It could be said that Irishman Fionn Regan’s music is delicate. It could also be said, and one wouldn’t be wrong in thinking so, that it’s strong, with mighty musicianship and lum...
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San Sebastian, Spain (dpa) - The 55th San Sebastian Film Festival
was opening Thursday in the northern Spanish coastal city, with a
string of stars expected to add sparkle t...
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If you look on the bright side, many more new homes were sold in May than Wall Street had predicted. But they were mostly in the South. (And the West. And the Midwest.) As for us lovely Northeaster...
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Out in front of a shimmery glass box located so far west on 34th Street that it's practically in New Jersey, people in spectacles and comfortable shoes roamed along 12th Avenue, attempting to hail ...
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On a recent Sunday afternoon in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, dads went by with well-bundled babies draped across them like mink stoles. Moms pushed strollers and pulled children. Couples held hands, coff...
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John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, was on the phone. “I have mixed emotions about ‘fabulous’ Williamsburg,” said Mr. Flansburgh, 47, who has lived in that ne...
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John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, was on the phone. “I have mixed emotions about ‘fabulous’ Williamsburg,” said Mr. Flansburgh, 47, who has lived in that n...
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Paul Auster
Critical Review by Carolyn See
Wang's film wins top San Sebastian award
