Name: Ted Gioia
Weblog: www.greatbooksguide.com
Articles: 52
First Published: Saturday, April 7, 2007
Last Published: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Currently listing articles 52-1:
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The New Canon: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski— House of Leaves breaks almost every rule of fiction, from the typographical to the metaphysical.
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The New Canon: Atonement by Ian McEwan— Ian McEwan's masterful novel starts out like a Jane Austen country romance but ends up a post-modern meta-fiction.
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Book Review: Indignation by Philip Roth— Philip Roth delivers a coming-of-age story about an indignant teenager whose conflicts seem destined to lead to an early grave.
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The New Canon: Possession - A Romance by A.S. Byatt— A.S. Byatt masterfully juxtaposes a modern day love story and a secret Victorian romance in a novel of academic intrigue.
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Book Review: Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes— “I don’t believe in God, but I miss Him,” author Julian Barnes claims in this peculiar book about spirituality and death.
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The New Canon: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace— In an age of down-scaled novels, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was four pounds of prose, and no fat!
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The New Canon: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami— In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami creates a strange world where magical dream landscapes intersect modern urban life.
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Remembering David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
— Dead at age forty-six, he will be remembered as one of the most brilliant writers of his generation.
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Book Review: Home by Marilynne Robinson— Marilynne Robinson's new novel tells the exact same story as her last novel. What's going on here?
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The New Canon: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem— Jonathan Lethem mixes superheroes and magical realism with a stark coming-of-age story.
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The New Canon: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson— In her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Marilynne Robinson finds transcendent poetry in the musings of a dying minister
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The New Canon: The Human Stain by Philip Roth— In The Human Stain, Philip Roth builds a rich multilayered novel from a tragic life observed from afar.
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The New Canon: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood— In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood raises issues about theocratic impulses and women's rights that are still relevant today.
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Book Review: Breath by Tim Winton— Breath is not so much about surfing — and it may be the great surfing novel — as it is about risk-taking.
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The New Canon: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez— Love in the Time of Cholera is one of the great love stories . . . or is it?
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The New Canon: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen— The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen deserves to remembered for more than just the "Oprah incident."
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The New Canon: Beloved by Toni Morrison— No novel of recent years has been more honored than Toni Morrison’s Beloved, but is it part of the Canon or the Anti-Canon?
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The New Canon: Underworld by Don DeLillo— Everything from Frank Sinatra to the nuclear arms race finds its way into Underworld, Don DeLillo's massive novel.
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The New Canon: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster— Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy is detective fiction with a distinctly post-modern flavor.
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Book Review: Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles— Can you build a whole novel out of a complaint letter? Jonathan Miles does just that in this novel.
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Book Review: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri— A Pulitzer Prize winning author reaches new heights in her latest collection of stories.
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Book Review: Netherland by Joseph O'Neill— A Field of Dreams cricket novel turns into a enigmatic crime story in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
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Book Review: Lush Life by Richard Price— A late night robbery goes awry and the detective heading the case looks on in dismay as this event blows up into a media circus.
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Book Review: Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff— Tobias Wolff writes so well, you won't notice that he is breaking all the rules of storytelling
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Book Review: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock— Can a whole town be filled with drugged up, narcissistic, scheming, vengeful, self-destructive losers?
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Book Review: Beautiful Children by Charles Bock— A debut novelist explores the seamier side of Las Vegas.
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Book Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks— Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brook imagines the history of a mysterious manuscript in her latest novel.
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Book Review: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett— The Queen of England has discovered that she likes to read books - but does the nation approve?
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Book Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon— Two swashbuckling friends fight their way through Asia Minor in Michael Chabon's post-modern adventure novel.
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Satire: Hamlet Wore Ladies Underwear and Other Literary Secrets Outed— What happens when fictional characters lead lives outside their books?
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Book Review: The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa— What happens when the love of your life is a very bad girl?
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Book Review: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson— Renegade CIA operatives run amuck in Vietnam.
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One Dozen Memorable Works of Hispanic Fiction— Each is a remarkable book – either a celebrated classic or a recent work that seems likely to stand the test of time.
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Book Review: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth— After nine books over almost three decades, Philip Roth concludes his account of the life and times of his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman
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Book Review: Run by Ann Patchett— In a year of many outstanding novels, this is one of the finest.
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Book Review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz— Readers have been expecting Junot Diaz's debut novel for more than a decade. Was it worth the wait?
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Book Review: Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff— Matt Ruff's latest novel moves ahead with the crazy, unhinged energy of a video game.
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Life After Potter: Ten Adventure Novels That Will Keep Youngsters Reading— These battle-tested novels will help your children survive Potter withdrawal.
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Book Review: Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński — A modern reporter covers revolutions and coups with the help of an ancient historian.
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Book Review: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño — Roberto Bolaño finds posthumous fame with a quirky novel about two rambling writers in search of a missing poet from the 1920s
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Oprah's Book Club Picks Middlesex for its Summer Selection— Jeffrey Eugenides' epic novel gets a boost from America's leading talk show host, baristas be damned.
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Book Review: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan— Ian McEwan charts the course of honeymoon night that goes terribly astray.
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Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini— Khaled Hosseini depicts the plight of two women against the turbulent backdrop of recent Afghan history.
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Book Review: Falling Man by Don DeLillo— Don DeLillo explores 9-11 and its aftermath in his latest novel.
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Book Review: Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick— A pulp sci-fi writer gets included in the prestigious Library of America.
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Book Review: After Dark by Haruki Murakami— Haruki Murakami exposes the dark side of Tokyo that emerges during the hours from midnight until dawn.
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Book Review: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon— One of America’s finest novelists dazzles with a Zionist Da Vinci Code in his latest novel.
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Cormac McCarthy Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road— Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but a science fiction novel just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Book Review: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall— A brilliant work of imaginative fiction in the spirit of Neuromancer and Snow Crash.
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Remembering Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)— Kurt Vonnegut expanded our horizons and opened up our hearts.
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Book Review: You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem— Jonathan Lethem tries to write the Great Rock Novel.
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Robert Heinlein at One Hundred— Almost twenty years after his death, Robert Heinlein still stirs controversy.
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