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\"\"<\/a>I know it\u2019s dumb to bet on which novels\u2014which anything<\/em>\u2014will endure and which won\u2019t. So why, reading Endless Love<\/em><\/a>, Scott Spencer\u2019s 1979 novel of romantic obsession, do I keep thinking, This will outlast us all? Maybe because it reminds me of other novels that have stayed fresh over the decades without the benefit of \u201cclassic\u201d\u2014or even cult classic\u2014status: books like Victory<\/em><\/a>, or Rebecca<\/em><\/a>, or The Transit of Venus<\/em><\/a> or The White Hotel<\/em><\/a> or, in a funny way, Mating<\/em><\/a>. You could make a much longer, even more random list, but there\u2019s something they all have in common, something to do with technical sophistication, urgency, and shamelessness, as if the plot came welling up out of a nightmare. They are, you might say, too strong to be classics; they don\u2019t need champions or explaining. People will just keep making each other read them. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nAfter my most recent binge at Westsider Books, I found myself holding a copy of something titled The Minikins of Yam<\/em><\/a>. Maybe it\u2019s all these rainy afternoons, but lately I\u2019ve missed the middle school era of my reading life, when \u201cguilty pleasure\u201d was the only category. I freely admit that I chose this paperback by Thomas Burnett Swann, an almost entirely forgotten 1970s author of \u201cneo-romantic fantasy,\u201d solely on account of its awesome cover art, in which a horned lady sallies forth atop a bejeweled ostrich. But Yam<\/em> delivers exactly what George Barr\u2019s cover art promises: basilisks, subterfuge, and beast-headed gods. If you, too, are an adult human still coping with the end of Harry Potter<\/em>, look for one of these gorgeous DAW paperbacks to help fill the void. \u2014Allison Bulger<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHappy Memorial Day Weekend! If mysophobia (or better options) keep you from the opening of public pools this weekend, I suggest reading David Foster Wallace\u2019s \u201cForever Overhead,\u201d a story from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men<\/em> <\/a>in which a pubescent boy celebrates his thirteenth birthday at a local public pool. You get splash fights, diving-board lines, too-tight suits, Marco Polo\u2014the stuff of poolside dreams\u2014and the fierce awkwardness and exposed, liquid thoughts that public pools and puberty bring forth. Wallace tells the story with manic detail and emotional exactitude, and, as always with dear DFW, it\u2019s at once playful and meditative, unlikely and perfect. \u2014Elizabeth Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI\u2019ve been home sick for the past two days and have found that Space Oddities: A Compilation of Rare European Library Grooves from 1977\u20131984<\/em><\/a> is the perfect sound track to a fever. Not a ringing endorsement? Well, you may just have to listen to this collection of carefully culled (by French DJs, naturally) clips from commercials, movies, and TV shows for yourself. I still have my \u201908 CD, but good news: the whole album is on Spotify! Try \u201cRobot Dancer.\u201d \u2014Sadie Stein <\/strong><\/p>\n

My experience with Egyptian art is limited mostly to the blockbuster stuff\u2014I remember seeing traveling shows in Texas, where the heavy eye makeup and big jewelry of the statuettes and masks seemed to make a certain kind of sense\u2014and it\u2019s impressive, to say the least. But now I\u2019m finding myself wowed by the smaller, less overtly extraordinary objects in the Met\u2019s \u201cDawn of Egyptian Art<\/a>\u201d show (I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with the catalogue<\/a> as well). The flash of gold and scale is replaced here with the innate beauty of natural materials and form, like a frog carved from a black stone flecked with white; a basket filled with tiny fish, all incised into a single piece of powdery steatite; and the head of a bovid chiseled from clay-hued flint. I\u2019m also unduly impressed with the various hippopotamus-shaped objects\u2014not surprising, since I\u2019ve long been the proud owner of a tubby blue \u201cWilliam<\/a>.\u201d \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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