Kendrick's reading is a departure from the usual method of criticizing Trollope—surveying the whole of his work a novel at a time, saying a little about every novel and always too little about each.
A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of Spectacle Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, ...
A Novel Victor LaValle. Now she looked back at the other books on the mantel as if some grand power lay in one of them. the rest of the Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown. But I doubted we'd find answers in Volume t2: Mysterious ...
The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story.
Written in Elizabeth Bear’s signature “rollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental” (Publishers Weekly) style, Machine is a fresh and electrifying space opera that you won’t be able to put down.
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London.
But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
To prevent abuse of the law, a machine must be built that detects lies with 100 percent accuracy. Once perfected, the Truth Machine will change the face of the world.
Men and women would be out on their ramshackle porches, kerosene lamps lit on tables and bannister rails. The lamps were the old hand-held glass ones with reflectors—tin discs behind the globes that shone and made the light waver.
In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other “baby” and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it ...