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Michael Henry Heim, UCLA scholar and translator, dies at 69
L.A. NOWMichael Henry Heim, a well regarded scholar of Slavic languages at UCLA known for his translations of works by Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov, has died. He was 69. Heim died Saturday at his home in...... -
Michael Henry Heim dies at 69; UCLA scholar, translator
Michael Henry Heim, a literary translator and humble philanthropist whose teaching, activism and widely admired translations of works by such writers as Günter Grass and Milan Kundera helped bring the voices of contemporary world literature into the...
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Book review: 'House of Holes' by Nicholson Baker
Los Angeles Times Book CriticHouse of Holes A Book of Raunch Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster: 262 pp., $25 Nicholson Baker wasn't kidding when he subtitled "House of Holes," his new novel, "A Book of Raunch." Indeed, it's a bona fide filth-fest, so unrelentingly graphic that...Tags: Pornography, Literature, Social Issues, Book, Arts and Culture
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Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days
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Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pinkwater brings a magical realist perspective to YA fiction in the third volume of the series that begins with "The Yggyssey" and "The Neddiad."
The Clock Without a...Tags: Henry Holt, Book, Gaming, Fenway Park, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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Slaughterhouse 90210: Where high meets low
Jacket CopySlaugterhouse 90210, a tumblr blog and column at Details, takes images from pop culture and captions them, hysterically, with literary quotes. A picture of Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) from "Miami Vice" is accompanied by... -
Hollywood liberals under fire: The Polanski debate gets political
The Big PictureIt was surely only a matter of time. The noisy partisan divide that seems to infect everything in America today -- from what health care plan you want to what car you drive -- has surfaced again. As soon as...... -
Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers
Jacket CopyIn 1999, the L.A. Times asked dozens of writers to look back at the prior century and share books they considered lost treasures -- books they loved that had slipped out of sight. Although the authors were formidable -- including...... -
Israel's Haaretz newspaper lets novelists take on the news
Jacket CopyDuring what has been one of the toughest news weeks for Israel in recent memory, daily newspaper Haaretz has let novelists and cultural critics step into its pages. The invitations to Margaret Atwood, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Milan... -
Summer reading list
Brand XHaving trouble deciding what to read this summer? Let the Los Angeles Times' book editors help with a selection of forthcoming titles. JUNE The Clock Without a Face Gus Twintig (McSweeney's) This fable includes riddles and a real-life treasure hunt:... -
Book review: 'Encounter' by Milan Kundera
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEncounter Essays Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher Harper: 192 pp., $23.99 "Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself?" Milan Kundera asks this question in writing about the painter Francis Bacon,...Tags: Francis Bacon, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Behavioral Conditions, Culture
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John Mayer: The writer behind the controversial Playboy interview speaks out
Pop & HissThe week's biggest pop story isn't the "We Are the World" remake or the new Erykah Badu single -- even if it should be -- but the fallout from John Mayer's recent interview with veteran music writer Rob Tannenbaum in...... -
A race conversation? What are you talking about?
Thank God for Barack Obama. For until his "More Perfect Union" speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race. "Maybe this'll be the beginning of a conversation," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan...Tags: Entertainment, Newspapers, Clarence Thomas, Education, National or Ethnic Minorities
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