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, the d...
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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 is...
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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, Squeeze ...
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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 di...
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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 novels ...
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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 ha...
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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 him...
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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 the ...
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Paul Auster
