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In Print

Alain Silver’s book is back and better than ever after 30 years. Still, it’s not nearly as potent as Hanzo the Razor.

by Louis Black December 23, 2005September 30, 2025

Aparain has unsurprisingly already been compared to Marquez. But this rich parable shares as much with Steinbeck’s The Pearl as it does with Marquez’s work. Both read like a folk legend, both portray music as the yearning soul’s most intimate expression, and both describe the struggle of an unsophisticated peasant- type against powerful societal forces

by Jeff Tonn March 25, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

In this powerful, largely autobiographical novel that was originally published in 1967, award-winning author and journalist Williams crafts the story of the irrepressible ‘Negro’ writer Max Reddick as he fights to make a difference in the world of the press and the letters

by Jay Trachtenberg September 17, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

The Latest in Paper

‘Portis’ characters are painfully human; they are often complicated, sometimes plain wretched, and always worth the price of admission,” writes Anne Harris of the great man’s True Grit. “And his frugal comic dexterity can be so subtle as to just whisper beneath catastrophe.”