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Mary Gaitskill. Illustration by Adrian Bellesguard. <\/p><\/div>Sometimes you get lucky: You find a used book for five dollars at The Strand by an author you\u2019ve been meaning to read. The cover of Mary Gaitskill\u2019s Two Girls, Fat and Thin<\/a><\/em>, is garish, and its themes\u2014incest, middle-school mean-girl power dynamics, adolescent pseudo-rape\u2014are objectively repellent. But Gaitskill is so dead-on in her examination of the emotional life of her two central characters that I can\u2019t help losing myself in the pages until finding a line\u2014one girl holds \u201cher aloneness around her like a magic cloak\u201d\u2014that when I look up, I discover I\u2019ve missed my subway stop. \u2014Miranda Popkey<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been reading J. G. Farrell\u2019s Troubles<\/a><\/em>, a historical novel\u2013cum\u2013comedy of manners set during the Irish guerrilla war of 1919\u201321. The backdrop is a grand, Victorian-era hotel in County Wexford, whose squash and palm courts are gradually going to seed\u2014a charming, if somewhat creaky allegory for the end of empire. But with history about to blow their roof off, Farrell\u2019s Anglo-Irish protagonists contrive to worry about how to replace the shingles. I’m everywhere reminded of Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s great theme, how the collapse of old orders gives new license to self-deception. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

In \u201cHow to Write Like a Victorian<\/a>,\u201d Slate\u2019s Paul Collins looks inside the first how-to manual for fiction\u2014which suggests, among other things, that authors haven\u2019t changed much since 1895. They navel-gaze; they fall in love with phrases and plot lines and can\u2019t let them go. The portrait may not be flattering, but Collins has unearthed some historical gems. \u201cNo man ought to make the writing of fiction his sole business,\u201d warns the guidebook\u2019s anonymous author. In other words, don\u2019t quit your day job. \u2014Kate Waldman<\/strong><\/p>\n

After reading\u2014and loving\u2014Damon Galgut\u2019s triptych of novellas, In a Strange Room<\/a><\/em>, I was very happy and only a little bit embarrassed to discover that the whole thing<\/em> had appeared<\/a> in The Paris Review<\/em>. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember years and years ago devouring Hedrick\u2019s Smith\u2019s The New Russians<\/a><\/em>, an account of daily life inside Gorbachev’s USSR, during the early period of my fascination with that vast country. So many books on the subject later, I\u2019m still seduced by its history. Susan Richards\u2019s Lost and Found in Russia<\/a><\/em>, a travelogue\/history of the nascent post-Communist nation, offers no shortage of strange tales from the more hidden\u2014and forgotten\u2014regions of the new new Russia. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week I netted this collection of Schopenhauer<\/a> from the stream of galleys and publicity copies flowing through 62 White. It includes, among other glories, \u201cOn the Inner Nature of Art\u201d and \u201cThe Artist and the Sublime.\u201d Here, we are persuaded that sublimity, as against beauty, flowers only in touching the distance of dread. Jonathan Edwards might have been pleased, one thinks. \u2014Mark de Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIFA will bill the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup Finals to Russia and Qatar yesterday as victories for Eastern Europe and the Middle East, neither of which has hosted the tournament, but it\u2019s hard not to take a more cynical view. Qatar has about 328 million fewer citizens than Manchester United has fans. \u2014Peter Conroy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you get lucky: You find a used book for five dollars at The Strand by an author you\u2019ve been meaning to read. The cover of Mary Gaitskill\u2019s Two Girls, Fat and Thin, is garish, and its themes\u2014incest, middle-school mean-girl power dynamics, adolescent pseudo-rape\u2014are objectively repellent. 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