Reviewed by Benjamin Errett When you encounter a novel filled with characters with names like Perkus Tooth, how do you react? If you roll your eyes and lament the loss of good old-fashioned nomenclature, Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City is not for you. Full Article at National Post

An amnesiac action hero who battles a mystifying web of enemies, Jason Bourne has outlived his author. David Samuels considers the enduring appeal of the kicking, punching, paranoiac babe in the woods. Full Article at The National Newspaper

Changing My Mind Occasional Essays Zadie Smith The Penguin Press: 306 pp. , $26.95 Reviewing Zadie Smith's 2001 debut, "White Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

SHOCKER: TC Boyle, easy to read but not so easy on the eye An anthropologist tells a story of visiting a remote village where a new headmaster had just been installed at the local school. "What do you think of the new principal?" he asked a local elder. Full Article at Times Live South Africa

One of my Facebook friends posted a status that was all, “Why can’t The Sun publish educated opinions?” So, here goes nothing: David Foster Wallace is the poor man’s Thomas Pynchon ’59. Pynchon is the pretentious man’s Vonnegut ’44. Bam. Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun

One of the recent reader requests is to give my opinion of him. It's pretty simple. The first half or so of Gravity's Rainbow is extraordinary. V is a superb novel, his most consistent work, and it is best read by not trying to make much sense of it. Full Article at Marginal Revolution