Arts & Life A.S. Byatt's 'Little Black Book of Stories' April 28, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Little Black Book of Stories, by English writer A.S. Byatt. Three of the five stories included in the collection touch on the weird, the ghostly, and the miraculous. A.S. Byatt's 'Little Black Book of Stories' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1861574/1861575" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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'Links' Tells Somalia's Tales April 20, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Links, by Somali writer Nuruddin Farah, about a Somali expatriate who returns to Mogadishu after being imprisoned their twenty years earlier. It's published by Riverhead, April 2004. 'Links' Tells Somalia's Tales Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1844730/1844731" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Arts & Life Book 'All That is Gone' from Indonesia April 12, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews All That is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels, a collection of short fiction dramatizing aspects of 20th century Indonesia that only remain in memory. Published by Hyperion, February 2004. Book 'All That is Gone' from Indonesia Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1834477/1834478" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Alan Cheuse Book Review: 'Southwesterly Wind' April 2, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Southwesterly Wind, by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, the third in a series of novels about a detective in Rio de Janeiro. This time, the detective is called upon to investigate a murder which has not yet taken place. Alan Cheuse Book Review: 'Southwesterly Wind' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1809412/1809413" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Looking Anew at 'Lord of the Flies' March 29, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews William Golding's Lord of the Flies, 50 years after its first publication. Cheuse says this harrowing tale of a group of schoolboys stranded on a remote tropical island still holds up today. Looking Anew at 'Lord of the Flies' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1800369/1800370" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Arts & Life Wouk Novel 'A Hole in Texas' March 22, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews A Hole in Texas by 88-year-old Herman Wouk, a fictional account of a scientist involved with the Texas-based Superconducting Super Collider project. Set in the 1990s the novel has both Hollywood and Congress woven into its plot. Wouk Novel 'A Hole in Texas' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1784245/1784246" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Gillison's Novel 'The King of America' March 11, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews The King of America by Samantha Gillison, a novel that tells the story of Michael Rockefeller, son of onetime New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Michael Rockefeller disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1961 off the coast of New Guinea. Gillison's Novel 'The King of America' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1761595/1761596" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Grisham's 'The Last Juror' March 4, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews "The Last Juror" by John Grisham, a page-turner about a small town Mississippi murder trial. Cheuse says the book makes for good airplane reading. Grisham's 'The Last Juror' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1746434/1746435" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Indonesian Fiction: 'All That is Gone' March 2, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews All That is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels, a collection of short fiction dramatizing aspects of 20th century Indonesia that only remain in memory.
Arts & Life Novel 'Loving Che' Tells Family's Story February 23, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Loving Che by Ana Menendez, a novel about paternity, citizenship, and identity told from the perspective of a young Cuban-American woman seeking to learn the truth behind her family history. Novel 'Loving Che' Tells Family's Story Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1693355/1693356" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Alan Cheuse Review: 'Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather' February 13, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee. It's a volume of modernist short fiction, driven by nuance and verbal energy. Alan Cheuse Review: 'Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1675548/1675549" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Book Review: 'Project X' February 6, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Project X by author Jim Shepard, a book about a Columbine High School-like shooting incident from the point of view of one of two eighth-grade outcasts at the center of the story. Book Review: 'Project X' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1659030/1659031" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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'American Radical' William Herrick Dies February 2, 2004 • The writer and Spanish Civil War veteran William Herrick died over the weekend. Our book commentator Alan Cheuse describes Herrick's life and work and the modern relevance of the writer's greatest subject: politics and terror. 'American Radical' William Herrick Dies Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1633831/1633832" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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'Siegfried': Reflections of Adolf Hitler's Evil January 26, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews Siegfried by Harry Mulisch, translated by Paul Vincent. The book is a reflection on Adolf Hitler's evil nature, told through the fictional story of a child born to Hitler and Eva Braun and later passed off as belonging to the couple that once ran Hitler's household. 'Siegfried': Reflections of Adolf Hitler's Evil Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1618290/1618291" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Cheuse Reviews Doris Lessing's 'The Grandmothers' January 16, 2004 • Alan Cheuse reviews The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing, a volume of four short novels from an octogenarian writer who has published more than 40 works of fiction. Cheuse says two of the four novellas show Lessing at her best, with stories whose plots revolve around children. Cheuse Reviews Doris Lessing's 'The Grandmothers' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1601993/1601994" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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