Sometimes, in American publishing, brilliant writers go missing in action. If you want to read the past several books by J.G. Ballard (“Empire of the Sun”), you have to send to England for them. The ...
Self-centered, insufferable narrators are hardly strangers to contemporary fiction, but it helps if they’re as funny as they are grandiloquent. Elisabeth Rother, the brutally appealing voice of “The ...
F rau Professor Doktor Rother, the narrator of this brutally funny debut, is self-centered, cynical, sarcastic, fiercely proud of her Aryan heritage and incorrigibly ...
On Wednesday, December 16 at 5:30pm, Labyrinth Books (122 Nassau Street, Princeton) will present A Conversation between playwright Emily Mann and international bestselling author Irene Dische. College ...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages, $24. Irene Dische, an American writer living in Berlin, is best known for short stories in which Germany figures as a wild territory, one where the memory roams ...
This must be said of Irene Dische: She is unflaggingly funny. In her new novel, "The Empress of Weehawken," she is so fearlessly and deceptively so that we are almost unwittingly led into the ...
F rau Professor Doktor Rother, the narrator of this brutally funny debut, is self-centered, cynical, sarcastic, fiercely proud of her Aryan heritage and incorrigibly anti-Semitic. As a German army ...
Amy Wilentz is the author, most recently, of "I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger." I have to make an important disclosure: I am ...
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