“Rage is Back,” Mansbach’s latest book, is a hilarious revenge thriller about a family of artists and their crew of criminalized graffiti bandits. They devise a plot to reclaim New York City by painting all the subway trains to destroy the campaign of a corrupt and murderous politician.
Schlagwort-Archive: Chicago Tribune
Rezension: Warren Ellis: “Gun Machine”
Warren Ellis, the pickled brain behind such turbo-juiced comics as “Transmetropolitan” and “Red,” writes genre novels as if he’d never seen a splash page in his life. “Gun Machine,” his new novel, is meaner and good.
Rezension: Michael Connelly: “The Black Echo”
In 18 novels over that span, the hard-charging, fiercely independent Bosch has hunted down and confronted a series of murderers, several of them serial killers; repeatedly clashed with his co-workers and bosses at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Rezension: Ian McEwan: “Sweet Tooth”
Ian McEwan’s storytelling at its best is a slow burn with a deliciously unexpected grand conflagration — taking the quiet life of a somewhat-flawed protagonist and throwing it into violent disarray with a few bad decisions and sadistic twists.
Artikel: The lonely passion of Harry Bosch
Fictional, schmictional. If you’ve read Connelly’s novels — there are 25 in all, with 18 featuring Bosch — then you know what Julia Keller means. Bosch is real. He’s real in the way that only made-up characters can be real.
Buchvorstellung: Tal McThenia & Margaret Dunbar Cutright: “A Case for Solomon”
“A Case for Solomon” by Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright unearths truths behind 100-year-old kidnapping case. A gripping, painstakingly researched narrative about a 4-year-old boy who mysteriously disappeared in the Louisiana swamps in 1912.
Rezension: Diana Wagman: “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets”
A giant iguana isn’t something we’ve come to expect as a key component in an L.A. novel, but that’s what local writer Diana Wagman has done with “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets.”
Rezension: Jay Caspian Kang: “The Dead Do Not Improve”
Jay Caspian Kang’s debut novel, “The Dead Do Not Improve,” demands to be accepted on its own terms. Korean American journalist Kang has penned a darkly comic novel about Philip Kim, a late Gen-X MFA from Columbia.
Rezensionen: Dave Zeltserman: “Monster”, Carlos Fuentes: “Vlad”
Frankenstein, Dracula cast their shadows — Horror and Mystery: In “Monster,” Dave Zeltserman gives Frankenstein’s creation a voice. Carlos Fuentes sets Dracula down in Mexico City in “Vlad.”
Artikel und Rezensionen: Joanne K. Rowling: “A casual vacancy” (3)
Auch im englischsprachigen Raum gibt es heute weitere Beiträge zum neuen Buch von J. K. Rowling: The Economist, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Telegraph, The Guardian
Rezension: Laura Lippman: “And When She Was Good”
Lippman calls her central character Heloise an American Everywoman. Hardly. She is more like a quirky character from Anne Tyler. Lippman’s writing brims with allusions, literary and otherwise. This book’s title refers to the H. W. Longfellow poem about the little girl.
Porträt: David Ellis
After targeting Blagojevich, David Ellis publishes his first book after collaborating with James Patterson.
Rezension: Dan Chaon: “Stay Awake”
A father, fretting about a young son’s night terrors, is gradually haunted by his own terrors from an alcohol-fueled past. Another man, marooned as a single parent since his wife’s tragic death, decodes meaning out of the scribbled scraps of paper.
Rezension: Ellen Ullman: »By Blood«
»By Blood«, a literary inquiry into identity and legacy, is a gripping mystery — remarkable, considering that little more happens than a man eavesdrops on a woman’s therapy sessions taking place next door.
Rezension: William Landay: »Defending Jacob«
Our blood is not our own. Like a tributary of some larger, older river, it runs in us for a little while but it hails from elsewhere. We like to think of ourselves as individuals, as distinctive and special, but in truth we are stamped and shaped by our ancestors.
Artikel: Sherlock Holmes in a skirt
When Tasha Alexander strolls the streets of Chicago, she doesn’t much see Wrigley Field or Chicago Rivers. She sees St. Paul’s Cathedral and the River Thames. Her imagination is perpetually tuned in to another place and time: London in the late 1800s.
Rezension: Ben H. Winters: »Bedbugs«
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. That’s the moral of the story in »Bedbugs«, a disturbing new novel by Ben H. Winters. The book chronicles the horrific events surrounding the Wendt family’s move to a brownstone.