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The Man in the Moon by William Joyce By William Joyce
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THE FIRST MARRIAGE
When the Republican Scott Brown defeated the Democrat Martha Coakley to win Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat in 2010, Michelle Obama was apoplectic. There was no major player in American politics whom Mrs. Obama treasured more...more
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WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK
A man walks into a peep show. He has an excellent reason: He has just scuffed his shoe, which was costly, on the sidewalk. A flight of stairs and $5 later, he is in a booth, facing a circular stage. The partition lifts. Before...more
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REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER: A MEMOIR
In the embryonic, ever-evolving era of social media – when milestones come by the day, if not by the second – June 8, 2010, has secured a rightful place in history. That was the day Wael Ghonim, a 29-year-old Google marketing...more
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LA CONFIDENTIAL
There are two things 13-year-old Weetzie Bat loves more than anything: her charismatic father, Charlie (»the love of my life«), who leaves her family just before the novel’s start, and the city of Los Angeles, the pink-hued...more
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HAITI RISING
Nick Lake’s novel “In Darkness” spans the traumatic history of Haiti, from its origins as the world’s only nation born of a slave revolution to its status today as one of the world’s poorest, giving us a glimpse of...more
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WASHING THE WOUNDS
Novelists writing about traumatic historical moments face a particular challenge: how to bring the event to immediate, visceral life without overpowering the characters or their experiences. In “Gathering of Waters,” her...more
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WIT'S END
However much we may love our parents, we may still fear the prospect of growing up to become just like them. This unease is closer to terror for Patrick Melrose, the hero of the British writer Edward St. Aubyn’s brilliant...more
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WITH YOU BY MY SIDE
I had two near-simultaneous thoughts upon closing Kristin Levine’s latest novel, “The Lions of Little Rock.” The first, as a reader, was simply, Ahhhhh. The second, as a writer, was of admiration. Creating a book that reads...more
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REMAINS OF THE DAYS
The British costume drama “Downton Abbey,” shown here on PBS, is now unfurling in all its magnificence, and I, like its millions of American fans, will again be reminded of what it would take for my life to be truly...more
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WIFE, MOTHER, MONARCH
As a British expat trying to keep in touch with the old sod, I’ve acquired the slightly eccentric habit of buying coffee mugs recording key moments in the public life of our royal family. Alas, those celebrating the weddings of...more
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AFTER 'LUNCH'
In 1959, as this collection begins, William S. Burroughs was living in Paris at 9, rue Git-le-Coeur, the address that would come to be known as “the Beat Hotel.” “Naked Lunch” had just been published by the Olympia Press;...more
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AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
Ramona Ausubel’s fantastical and ambitious first novel, “No One Is Here Except All of Us,” was inspired by reminiscences and stories told by her Romanian-born grandmother. Ausubel, who grew up in New Mexico, is several...more
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