OLM Favorites: A Great and Sustaining Mystery
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Anthony Burgess the novelist had dreams of being a composer. He had little success, but along the way he delved deep into the nature and meaning of music.
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OLM Favorites: Rarest Spun Heavenmetal
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A Clockwork Orange turned 50 this year and received the gift of an anniversary edition. Justin Hickey looks anew at the novel Anthony Burgess claimed to have knocked off in three weeks, and which made him famous.
Read MoreClosest to Perfection
/Europa Editions has reprinted Anthony Burgess' masterpiece Earthly Powers. Our editors talk about that seminal volume which has inspired an issue wide celebration of Burgess and his work.
Read MoreReal Full Rich Rank
/Respectable novelists are solemn, meditative, and deliberate--they certainly don't churn out book reviews every week. Anthony Burgess smashed that fussy mold and left us a lifetime's work of brilliant, omnivorous literary journalism.
Read MoreUnorientalized
/Anthony Burgess' first novels were a series of dark comedies set in colonial Malaya. Did he fall prey to Edward Said's Orientalist crtitique, or did he anticipate it?
Read MoreEntitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess
/Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?
Read MoreTraveler at his Desk
/Burgess gave himself room to stretch his arms (and facts) in the two volumes of his Confessions. That space to digress, opine, sing songs, is what makes both books so memorable -- even indispensable.
Read MoreSharing A Cab
/Give Anthony Burgess a check and he’d write anything, even a Time-Life picture book. Which doesn’t mean that his 1976 guide to New York is anything less than fascinating.
Read MoreFate’s Engine
/Commissioned to translate Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Anthony Burgess decided on a few changes to the text. What were they, and what do they teach us about fate?
Read MoreThis Light is Enough
/Renowned reviewer and cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn has a scintillating new collection of his recent work; John Cotter and Steve Donoghue compare notes on "Waiting for the Barbarians"
Read MoreA Rasp in the Air
/A thumping mix-tape of dystopian fantasy and gangster noir, Kevin Barry's City of Bohane defies easy categorization--but does it offer a story to match its stylistic bravura?
Read MoreSkulking in the Sewers
/Umberto Eco's potboiling new novel The Prague Cemetery was denounced in Europe for anti-Semitism, and then went on to become a best-seller. Is the controversy valid? What strange creation has Eco brought forth?
Read MoreOnward, Muriel, Onward!
/Perceptive, cosmopolitan British novelist Muriel Spark has at last received an enormous and long-promised biography. Is justice done - or perhaps overdone?
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