When the novelist learned to escape his own mind, he got a little closer to the greatness he sought.
Ryan Bloom
Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written for The New Yorker, The Arabesques Review, The Baltimore Sun, The Current, Horizon Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, and other publications. His translation of Albert Camus's Notebooks 1951-1959 (Rowman and Littlefield) was nominated for the 2009 French-American and Florence Gould Foundation's excellence in translation award.
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Nationals Pride
After 79 years, Washington, D.C., finally has a major league baseball team in the playoffs.
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The Making of a Madman
A.N. Wilson’s new biography explains how losing money, mother, and mind created Hitler.
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Under the Covers, Between the Sheets
With the new translation of the Kama Sutra, it’s not all about sex.
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And Then There Was Light, Man
Mimicking a familiar format, Alan Lightman’s Mr. g fails to create a unique world.