Alan Cheuse appears in the following:
How To Put This 'Delicate'-ly ... Not Le Carre's Best Work
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Some novelists interest us because they turn the light of a style we enjoy on whatever subject they take up. Some novelists we enjoy because they have found a great subject and work it well and lovingly. John le Carre seems to belong to the latter group, having found his ...
Real Writing, Real Life In Salter's 'All That Is'
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
"There comes a time," James Salter writes in the epigraph for his new novel, All That Is, "when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real."
There's an echo here of the great 17th-century Spanish playwright Calderon de ...
Tigers, Scholars And Smugglers, All 'At Home' In Sprawling Novel
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
It's difficult to predict the reception Where Tigers Are at Home will receive in the United States. The winner of France's Prix Medicis in 2008, this big, sprawling novel (in a translation by Mike Mitchell) comes to us from Algerian-born writer, philosopher and world traveler Jean-Marie Blas de Robles, author ...
Hamid's How-To For Success, 'Filthy Rich' In Irony
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Novelist Mohsin Hamid lives in Lahore, Pakistan, quite some distance from the Long Island of Jay Gatsby. But his new novel — his third and, I think, best so far — reminded me of F. Scott Fitzgerald's quintessential American work. As I read this novel about the dark and light ...
Alan Cheuse on 'Song of Slaves in the Desert'
Monday, March 28, 2011
The history of slavery is interwoven with the history of America, but what most of us learn about in school is the history of white settlers. And even in that white history, there are particular characters — mostly Dutch and Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Not Catholics, and certainly not Jews. But that may be about to change. A new novel called “Song of Slaves in the Desert” centers on a slave family and its owners, who are Jewish. It’s written by Alan Cheuse, the novelist and George Mason University professor who you might know as the books reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered.
