Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The hazard is not limited to professional prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

On a long table, also heaped with old books and papers, the proprietor was writing tireless prose in purple letters, somewhat outlandish, and on the loose pages of a school notebook. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A stranger with a flair for cocktail-party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We must think of art not in terms of everyday prose but of poetry, which is free to rearrange conventional vocabulary and syntax in order to convey new, often multiple, meanings and moods. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We frequently exchanged books, did English homework together, read prose and poetry together, trained together, and sat on the same seat during tennis trips. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Metadiscourse is not the only form of self-consciousness that bogs down professional prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But Hoggart’s calm prose only makes me recall the urgency with which I came to idolize my grammar school teachers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a skilled writer can enliven and sometimes electrify her prose with the judicious insertion of a surprising word. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then, for fear that its brief relapse into prose might have hardened the tyrant’s heart, it launched out breathlessly into Genevieve, tor the third time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of words, the pungency of the Adams prose comes through so impressively in the correspondence in part because Adams invested himself in the exchange more than Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Writers who want to invigorate their prose could try to memorize that list of don’ts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Economists need cool heads and cold hearts for this sort of work, and they must write in icy, often skiddy prose. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not all prose should be classic, and not all writers can carry off the pretense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At this point in my life, and significantly as his daughter, it is quite meaningful for me to contribute my prose to this living record. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Appreciating the treelike nature of a text can also help you understand one of the few devices available in nontechnical prose to visually mark the structure of discourse: the paragraph break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Similarly, take a bit of unpunctuated prose, add the dots and flourishes in the right place, stand back, and what have you got? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I do not know whether he influenced my prose style, but I could hope he did. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drafted mostly by Szilard with Einstein’s input, the two-page, eight-paragraph document buries the urgency of the situation under dry and conditional prose, its momentousness communicated largely by Einstein’s signature at the bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I felt drawn by professionalism to the edge of sterility, capable of no more than pedantic, lifeless, unassailable prose. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left below are two examples—the first expressing similarity, the second expressing contrast—in which scientists do in their prose what they would never do in the lab. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Though academic prose is often stuffed with needless words, there is also a suffocating style of technical writing in which the little words like the, are, and that have been squeezed out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I would try to read a piece of prose, a poem or a play with the same articulateness and clarity of the station. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donald Byrne, the United States Open champion, said he was so on edge that he spent the entire day before the match trying not to think of chess, reading the romantic prose of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We must hasten back on the wings of prose to the factory and its folk, who prompted my rather lengthy digression. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coherence connectives are the unsung heroes of lucid prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The art of classic prose is to signpost sparingly, as we do in conversation, and with a minimum of metadiscourse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

For the rest I have followed Apollodorus, a prose writer of the first or second century A.D. who is the only writer except Ovid to tell Hercules’ life in full. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Augustus assured me it was because my email was better and required a more thoughtful response, that Van Houten was busy writing answers to my questions, and that brilliant prose took time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was on the debating society my first year and was chosen to represent the school in Afrikaans, Tsonga and English prose and poetry reading during inspection. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disadvantage is that representational art, like prose, is always bound to the literal meaning and appearance of the everyday world, at least to some extent. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy for me to imagine myself hunched over a keyboard, pounding out reams of deathless, hard-boiled prose. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Much earlier I spoke of the changes at state lines, changes in Highway English, in prose forms on the signs, changes in permitted speeds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a paperback prose translation, abridged, set loose from its numbers, robbed of the music of the ancient Greek but—as far as I was concerned—still a terrific read. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Using a formal style when an informal style is called for results in prose that seems stuffy, pompous, affected, haughty. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The writing can be bloated, self-conscious, academic; these are habits that classic style, which treats prose as a window onto the world, is designed to break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But those words should be fitted into new sentences that work together as a coherent passage of prose in its own right. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Such prose, however, bore the unmistakable whiff of hurt feelings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were, after all, two of the most accomplished letter writers of the era, men who had fashioned over long careers at the writing desk distinctive prose styles that expressed their different personalities perfectly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Classic prose is a pleasant illusion, like losing yourself in a play. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it’s a more inviting one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Winston Churchill did not, as legend has it, reply to an editor who had corrected his prose with “This is pedantry up with which I will not put.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Luce was interested in the gender giveaways of my prose, of course. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The problem with the passives that bog down bureaucratic and academic prose is that they are not selected with these purposes in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Good prose is never written by a committee. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I have picked four passages of twenty-first-century prose, diverse in style and content, and will think aloud as I try to understand what makes them work. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to write so that, in the same instant of time, the objective and subjective aspects of Bigger’s life would be caught in a focus of prose. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond sheer verbal volume, the punch so evident in the Adams prose reflected his more aggressive and confrontational temperament. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Structural parallelism works not just in poetic and hortatory passages but also in ordinary expository prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It may not be a coincidence that Greene, like many scientists since Galileo, is a lucid expositor of difficult ideas, because the ideal of classic prose is congenial to the worldview of the scientist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He couched his offer in prose that made it seem as if he were proposing the purchase not to benefit himself but solely to free the grieving Mrs. Holton from the burden of work. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are many allusions to him in prose writers as well as poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas and Turner explain that the reader of classic prose “may conclude that a text is masterful, classic, and completely wrong.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Though different than NP is disliked by a slim majority of the AHD Usage Panel, it has long been common in carefully written prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But when they came, their obdurate, elliptical prose offered no choices. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fact is, I’ve been producing prose home movies, off and on, since I was fifteen. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Too many connectives can make it seem as if an author is belaboring the obvious or patronizing the reader, and it can give prose a pedantic feel. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Many words convey subtle shades of meaning, provide glimpses into the history of the language, conform to elegant principles of assembly, or enliven prose with distinctive imagery, sound, and rhythm. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Wilkerson not only rectifies the world’s ignorance about the Great Migration, but with twelve hundred interviews and crystalline prose she makes us understand it in its full human reality. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Though his prose remained pungent, the more dangerous bursts of candor had subsided, especially after Abigail passed away in October of 1818. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sagas, all prose tales, are of later date. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s one of the reasons a writer should mutter, mumble, or orate a draft of his prose to himself, ideally after enough time has elapsed that it is no longer familiar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The conventions of written prose represent a similar standardization. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I found it on the last page, in the very last words—not poetry in stanzas, just Frank’s prose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t match you for prose, but what I can do is write you a list. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I reread my words, and again it is the reader’s voice I hear in my mind, sounding my prose. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading a draft, even in a mumble, also forces you to anticipate what your readers will be doing as they understand your prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What we did was terrible, but still I don’t think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up to weakness on my part, hubris on Henry’s, too much Greek prose composition—whatever you like. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So many things can go wrong in a passage of prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

No prose paraphrase can give any idea of Pindar, except, perhaps, something of his singular power for vivid and minutely detailed description. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my first letter I had hoped to impress you with my brilliant prose, but that will have to wait for my second. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The different prose styles are not sharply demarcated, and many kinds of writing blend the different styles or alternate between them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But now for the first time I became aware that each state had also its individual prose style, made sharply evident in its highway signs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writer must work to keep up the impression that his prose is a window onto the scene rather than just a mess of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, many prescriptive rules originated for screwball reasons, impede clear and graceful prose, and have been flouted by the best writers for centuries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Emma could not have desired a more spirited rejection of Mr. Martin’s prose. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the fact that the book was published in English and written in clear, accessible prose was almost as important as what it contained. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only later, as Sumerians progressed beyond logograms to phonetic writing, did they begin to write prose narratives, such as propaganda and myths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He struggled with the Russian and continually asked his mother to translate some of the prose passages that accompanied the annotations of the moves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In classic prose the writer is directing the gaze of the reader to something in the world she can see for herself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I am an avid reader of all signs, and I find that in the historical markers the prose of statehood reaches its glorious best, and most lyric. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to this theory, opaque prose is a deliberate choice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The greatest American scientist, the most deft diplomat, the most accomplished prose stylist, the sharpest wit, Franklin defied all the categories by inhabiting them all with such distinction and nonchalant grace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In his Defence, Adams had written three volumes of relentless and seemingly endless prose to show that political power invariably rested in the hands of a few prominent individuals and families. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They not only fuzz up a writer’s prose but can undermine his intent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I soon became one of the best prose and poetry readers in school, and would often get picked to represent the school whenever white inspectors came to assess our progress. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his prose revealed the depth and subtlety of his thinking about how landscape could be modified to produce an effect in the mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Eugene Lim has constructed his latest novel, “Search History,” along these lines, meaning to replicate in a prose narrative our cybernetic knowledge quests, be they deadly serious or wantonly whimsical. Review | Eugene Lim’s ‘Search History’ is a pulpish adventure interwoven with meditative moments 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Rachel Polonsky in the Times was less obviously enamoured: "In extravagant prose, Spufford conjures the physical texture of Soviet life as it moves farther and farther away from the promised abundance." Critical eye 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

But he ends up so taken with its romance that some of his prose sounds like advertising copy. Amazing grapes 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobson’s laid-back writing can resemble stoner prose, as if he’s fighting an urge to add the word “dude” to his sentences. Books of The Times: A Grotesque Artifact Starts a Journey From Garage Sale to Buchenwald 2010-09-30T22:21:00Z

She ranged so widely and richly that questions about a certain looseness with facts, or whether her prose style changed after transition, seem almost beside the point. For Jan Morris, Staying in One Place Was Never an Option 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Hinman’s account is occasionally marred by lazy prose falling into cliche. Review | The glorious past of a long-gone Madison Square Garden 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Due brings readers into this experience with eerie, beautiful prose that gives the novel a shimmer of the otherworldly. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.” The Year in New Yorker Fiction Débuts 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Cossé is also a master prose craftswoman, her writing is stunning and vivid and has a very particular rhythm to it. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Meaning one that carries the terse flavour of his cool, hard prose and the macho excitement of his narratives? A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Putting Fitzgerald on screen is a thankless business — his infinitely delicate realism withers in the light, and if you can’t capture the texture of his prose, there’s really no point. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

His reticence hasn’t stopped scholars and literary critics from dissecting his prose and themes. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Reading other prose masters from roughly the same period can be a familiar experience. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

His prose tends to be as biting as his ideas. Books of The Times: A Call for the Commonweal: Tony Judt?s ?Ill Fares the Land? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

The rueful humor of the last sentence is typical of Ullmann’s prose, which is plain, succinct and declarative, with currents of intensity flowing beneath the placid surface. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

It's not the detective plot, the noirish palette to everything, the enviably snappy dialogue, or terse brilliance of Chandler's prose. Radio review: The Big Sleep 2011-02-07T08:00:04Z

The prose is nowhere distinguished and is occasionally absurd. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Make sure the spelling is right and that the prose ain’t too lame And most of all, don’t forget to disclaim! Style Invitational Week 1424: We Bee back — a neologism contest 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

If Mr Birmingham occasionally slips into academic jargon, at other moments he almost seems swept up in his own Joycean prose. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Though the foreboding atmosphere that Sackville's prose creates is a joy, the story lacks narrative tension. Orkney by Amy Sackville – review 2013-03-24T12:30:01Z

Mr. Jenkins is among those writers — P. J. O’Rourke is another — who combine an anarchic prose style and a sometimes colorful personal life with conservative politics. Books of The Times: ‘His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir,’ by Dan Jenkins 2014-03-04T20:04:03Z

Ms. Morgan’s prose has some of that filmmaker’s elastic sense of time. Review: In C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings,’ Racing Against the Tide 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

In powerful, seemingly effortless prose, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet recounts how he struggled with his father’s troubling influence and his own demons. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Maybe it was the hormones, but I felt the prose was lyrical and shifting in an interesting way, even as it described horror. ‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The prose is loquacious, repetitive, at times self-indulgent and just good enough to get away with it. Letter of despair 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The prose here is more relaxed and vernacular than the precise, mesmeric lyricism of Messud's The Hunters or The Emperor's Children. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z

Lee, praised the “full and simple pleasures of Frankel’s luscious prose.” Nine People Under One Roof for Two Weeks? Have Fun! 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

There is some mildly portentous writing in “The Yellow House,” but for the most part Broom’s prose is alert and inquisitive. ‘The Yellow House’ Is a Major Memoir About a Large Family and Its Beloved Home 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

And Tomar’s purplish prose, reaching toward lyricism, lands smoothly more often than it splats: “The freeways between these places were black and hungry, split open like rattlesnakes drying in the sun.” Debut Novels About Families Fractured by Abuse, Displacement or Death 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, this claustrophobic style breaks like a fever, yielding to flights of mesmerically expansive prose. A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

His use of evidence, absorbed from vast archival sources and hundreds of interviews, is punctilious, his judgments measured, his wit dry and sympathetic, his prose classically balanced. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

It is dark and bitter and grand, and its prose mixes despair with a sense of majesty. A Novel That Echoes Naipaul, Exploring the Limits of Freedom 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

And his conversational prose style, which can impart the treacherous delusion that you, reader, might also become a famous novelist if you simply typed up 100 percent of your internal monologue and hit spell-check. Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

I consider, in a very humble way, all my prose, and even some of my poetry, to be a whole. A brief survey of the short story part 46: Roberto Bolaño 2013-01-24T11:38:51Z

There are moments when the sheer beauty of the prose takes one's breath away. Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Every second is, indeed, precious, and Patchett’s prose is as welcoming and comforting as the chickpea stew Sooki cooks for her. Review | Ann Patchett’s ‘These Precious Days’ is a beautiful reminder of what’s important 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

More than any other season, designers have focused on prose, on clothes that conjure a clear-eyed, hard-charging approach to life. Perspective | The message from the Paris runways is simple: Buy a suit and get to work 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

In addition to plays, she wrote poetry and prose, including a famous missive that argued eloquently for a woman’s right to education and a life of the mind. At Gala Theatre, a 17-century ‘house of desires’ with modern sensibilities 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

I would say I have less patience for lousy prose, which I used to put up with if I wanted the information or ideas. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

But for the last hundred years poets writing in English have taken it to extremes, so that, technically, it’s no longer verse, but prose. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

One or two of the friends I have persuaded to read Hazzard's work have found the prose mannered, but once you tune to its wavelength, her style exerts a dreamlike spell. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z

It’s an exciting ride — a tour de force of precise, suspenseful prose — and also an appalling study in selfishness and irresponsibility. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Jones’s prose, though, shines with a poet’s desire to give intellections the force of sense impressions. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

As Bloom’s day unfolds, the density of Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness prose — staccato bursts of thought brimming with historical references, aphorisms and wordplay — grows in Mr. Fitzgerald’s delivery. Theater Review: ‘Gibraltar,’ Adapted From ‘Ulysses,’ Plays at Irish Rep 2013-06-25T22:02:32Z

I loved the lilting lyricism of the prose. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The characters are two-dimensional; the prose offers few, if any, fresh perceptions; the tone never deepens. Conversations With Friends, in a Russian Jail Cell 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

It’s a work of verse, with some prose end matter to help elucidate the poems, and it will reward a reader sophisticated enough to grapple with language and metaphor. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Here, but for a few quoted conversations, she writes her narratives in the third person, in her own dramatic, often overreaching, staccato prose. What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

One supposes training flashbacks are always possible … Of necessity, turning 1,000 pages of prose into a relatively few hours of screen time involves dropping, combining and retooling elements of a novel. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

I Write Like, designed by software developers Coding Robots, lets you paste in a section of your prose and analyses your vocabulary, sentence-length and punctuation. At last! Website confirms I write like Margaret Atwood ... 2010-07-15T10:30:00Z

This book brings together a vast selection of her poetry, 12 pieces of prose, mostly essays, and a long excerpt from her memoir “The Cancer Journals.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The madcap energy and profusion of detail, the weaving of unmarked dialogue with narration, the swoops from comedy to pathos—these are all typical of Lemebel’s prose. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Whatever my movement, he thought, what I am writing is not really prose but linked sequences of prose poems! A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Messud isn’t a writer who grabs her subject matter by the throat or pumps her prose full of kinetic energy. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

And so Hale makes quick work to reveal her ugliness in contrast to prose that’s casual and cool and often funny. Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

It was later made into a 1997 movie that stands out as the one unanimously hailed adaptation of Ellroy's labyrinthine prose. James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Later he contends that Gibbon’s highly polished prose in “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” leads to flatness and monotony: “The ages change, but the varnish of the narrative is the same.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

It's not something to be tackled after an over-liquid Christmas dinner, as the prose is hard work. Best architecture books of 2012 2012-12-01T10:00:01Z

The story came with a stack of ancient pulp magazines that detailed the deaths in grisly detail, complete with photos of a headless body and plenty of purple prose. King, Mellencamp break rules with 'Ghost Brothers' 2013-06-07T15:13:15Z

Chang’s prose reads more like a stream-of-consciousness recounting of events than a cohesive story. A Fictional Heroine’s Fitful Upbringing Is Set Against the Sino-Japanese War 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

She remained steadfast; in a life dogged by alcoholism and ill health, appalling husbands and, admittedly, a fair amount of chaos of her own making, her prose never lost its force, sheen or sour majesty. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Talusan describes such experiences with unadorned prose that conveys a startling specificity. Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

I'm not going to revise, or retract my opinions of Rowling's prose. The age of Harry Potter draws to a close 2011-07-06T10:02:42Z

Macfarlane contributes only 25 pages of prose to this book; the final 15 are the work of Richards. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z

Banville’s prose goes positively purple with “the heaped pyre of possibilities it had set alight inside her.” 'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

George Painter, a biographer of Proust, once compared the experience of reading Violet Trefusis’s prose to “being driven at 90 m.p.h. over an ice field, by a driver who knows how to skid for fun.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z

Originally performed on mediaeval carts trundling round the city, the effects are exuberantly ingenious and described in muscular 14th century Yorkshire prose and verse. York Mystery Plays' triumphant return to St Mary's abbey 2012-08-09T10:00:00Z

These stories drift, but Johnson finesses his way through them, his prose vernacular and elevated at the same time. Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

This implausible epiphany was forced on Melville by emotional necessity; and he earns and achieves it with many long paragraphs of sublimely fearless prose. Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

But equally salient is the idea that prose is a translation of violence into language. ‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path Into Elena Ferrante’s Mind 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Among the many highlights: a newly discovered film soundtrack from 1961 and four typewritten drafts of “Tarantula,” the book of disjointed prose poetry that Dylan wrote in the mid-60s. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Vonnegut’s prose, even when dealing with the dreadful, whistles a happy tune. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

It's a prose "crip" version of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife with the same wit and verve, but it goes further, challenging how we understand and look at our own and other bodies. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z

The older he got, the more chances Mr. Bowden seemed to take as a reporter and as a prose stylist. Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69

But always – from the blitz-set After the Raid, to the painfully funny radio psychodrama Silent Sentry, to the eerie chiller Newton's Swing and beyond – a persistent and consistent melancholy permeated the spare prose. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

All the poetry and prose that he is fondest of quoting tends to celebrate the same romantic ideal of swashbuckling benevolence. T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z

Cooper told me that he sees his GIF projects as continuous with his prose fiction, composed according to “the same principles and planning and structuring” as his work in print. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

But it was more than just a fine writer's eloquent lament for the tragic loss of eloquence: it was a prose poem about language and mortality. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z

What keeps all this engaging — beyond the real charm of these two young people — is the way Hunt refuses to let any conclusions solidify in her wry prose. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, Tuil’s prose races along so quickly the words literally pile up against one another: Samir “enters the courtroom, frightened/distraught/exhausted.” ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

He's included in almost any anthology of the Brazilian poetry and is also well-known for his prose, once claiming that writing journalism was the only thing he did with any pleasure. What now for Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazil's national poet? 2012-11-13T12:45:27Z

Dirty Work combines the same perfectly measured doses of compassion, respect for human dignity and straight-talking attention to detail in sparsely elegant prose. Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston – review 2013-06-30T16:00:01Z

As for the prose, in addition to the invective/graffiti thing Irvine has Dan Brown's way with proper nouns and their qualifiers. A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt – And Why They Shouldn't by William B Irvine – review 2013-07-10T08:00:00Z

The prose also renewed my faith in language. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Despite occasional passages of genuine beauty, his prose often resembles brutalist architecture: dull, frank and functional. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore

It makes sense that it made such a good film – even if the most impressive feature of the book, Ondaatje's prose, can't be caught on celluloid. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z

Republished in Britain this year, it captures the dissociated mental state of a children’s author, Lise, who hallucinates voices and faces, the latter — disembodied, floating, often those of children — inspiring the book’s singular prose. Beyond the Cruel Facts of Her Life Are Truths That Cut Deep 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

James Franco has taken Cormac McCarthy’s stylistic prose and replaced it with grunts, whelps and whinnies. Child of God review – James Franco misfires with this punishing thriller 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Deón’s prose is beautiful, and the voice animating “The Perishing” is heartfelt. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

“By the date of his first book of prose Hughes had become for many a symbol of the black renaissance,” Bontemps writes. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But that author and I both turned our struggles into prose. They Always Had Paris — So He Went Back There Without Her 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The former is a memoir that he completed fourteen years before his death, in 1997; the latter is a collection of early experimental work that he wrote in his thirties, when he first attempted prose. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Again, the voice here is using elaborate, vigorous, often very entertaining prose, adverbs and all: "perfectly", "shockingly", "impossibly". Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z

His prose is often described as bleak, but in fact it practises a parity of gaze. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

Biblical prose is factual and unembellished, lacking descriptions and almost without adjectives. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z

Denis Johnson seems to be the abiding spirit of the novel, which achieves the incendiary strangeness of his prose if not the same supreme illumination. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Stories are nested in stories and crack open to reveal rumor and anecdote, prose poems, tendrils of myth. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Yet there is also something about its prose and sensibility that makes it seem at times just as much for adults. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z

Ben is nothing if not a decent man, and Anderson rewards him with a deadly adventure and the most poetic prose this side of Salt Lake City. Keep Watch Over Your Children: Danger Lurks Everywhere 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s unfortunate that this time, while her pacing is swift, her prose, unfortunately, is often workmanlike, lacking the sheer bravura strangeness of the previous novel. Review | In her new novel, Rene Denfeld draws on her experience as a homeless teen 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The jaunty Victorian temperament of the prose rings true to the era, as do its thoroughness and attention to detail. ‘The Swan Gondola’: mysteries of Omaha in a cinematic novel 2014-03-10T06:58:08Z

There’s no denying the haunting quality of Coetzee’s measured prose, his ability to suspend ordinary events in a world just a few degrees away from our own. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

At times, the sheer beauty of Vandermeer’s prose, and the complex world it invokes, overwhelm the plot. Jeff Vandermeer's new dystopian novel "Borne" is lyrical and harrowing; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

All the glitter and go is in Fitzgerald's prose. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z

I know sophisticated readers, devoted science fiction fans, who can’t stand it, finding Herbert’s prose inept, the action ponderous, and the whole book clumsy and tedious. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Some people regard reading poetry as a form of punishment — exiled from the prose world of making sense, hard labor instead of simple enjoyment of making delicious discoveries and delighting in language’s immense resources. The Appalachian Trail, the 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

The result is a long prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges upon a single family. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Charyn makes the real and the imagined sound equally plausible, with prose that evokes Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” in its rapid-fire energy. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Full of comic scenes, the novel was in marked contrast to the spare poetical prose of Ms. Pineda’s earlier novels. Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

It was chosen by the American novelist, Richard Ford, who lauded Keegan's "patient attention to life's vast consequence and finality" and her "thrilling" and "sparkling" prose style. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Cunningham’s deft construction, with its precious pseudo-Woolf prose, discreetly highlights the threads of connection — flashes of the color yellow, degrees of same-sex desire — weaving the stories together. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

De Kretser’s exquisitely crafted prose is the current that carries them along, guiding them through violent eddies and placid pools, with a bend in the river obscuring their fates until the final page. Questions of Travel and Bon Iver, Bon Iver – the perfect soundtrack 2013-06-22T00:35:16Z

Sackville's prose style has been widely remarked on by critics, who have identified a "startling originality" and "beautiful" restraint. Amy Sackville wins John Llewellyn Rhys prize for The Still Point 2010-11-23T19:30:00Z

This is despite the fact that in these sections Parini incorporates Melville's own words into his prose. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z

The prose poems that make up the bulk of this slim book, all of them called “The Problem,” resemble absurdist flash fiction, disrupting reality through juxtaposition and non sequitur. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Bill Forsyth's film version, made in 1987, is an unswervingly faithful adaptation, preserving the narrative shape, the tone, the desolate backwoods atmosphere, even finding visual correlatives for Robinson's scriptural, luminous prose. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

Because of its strong narrative thrust, frequent autobiographical bent and tendency to shun conventional poetic devices, some reviewers dismissed it as merely prose with line breaks. Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Ironically, Wolfe's distrust of pop art is confounded by the fact that his own prose style seems surely to be pop at its most classic. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z

Chandor's screenplay was 31 pages of prose description, with no dialogue. Why Robert Redford lost his voice 2013-12-23T01:10:29Z

No British novelist writes such resourceful, delightful prose. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

A Dark Room, with sparse prose inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” hit the top of the iPhone game charts in April. Text Games in a New Era of Stories 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

“When your prose is in direct visual competition with soft, nubile young women all set for some antic hay,” he wrote, “you better talk loud, brother.” D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Journalism from the best modern practitioner of classic English prose. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Fans of Mr Winton will expect lucid characterisation and atmospheric prose; the author finds poetry in the grimmest scenes. Freefall 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Sir Thomas Browne, a brilliant 17th-century polymath, coined "literary" and "medical", but his prose is so full of fiercely peculiar words that his books today seem baffling. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z

In the prose poem “Whimsy,” his manias for birds and food collide. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Perhaps in his last hours Sargent stumbled upon this musing from that compendium: “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.” Who are the real women behind John Singer Sargent’s portraits? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Told in patient, psychologically complex prose, “Sight” combines the narrator’s thoughts about her own mother, who died several years earlier, and her remembrances of her grandmother, a psychoanalyst, with her relevant digressions about scientific history. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

The crimes of everyman characters are dismissed with a sentence or two of forgiving prose: alcoholism leading to child abuse, casual spousal violence, multiple fatal stabbings. US crime author has dark take on Finnish society 2012-12-21T11:16:04Z

His excellent prose and a powerful story fuel this shining quasar of a book. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

There are allusions to poetry and prose throughout the story. Andrea Lee on Cross-Cultural Encounters 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a similar tactic, he says, to one he used in “The English Patient,” which shares the lyrical prose and intricate narrative of “Warlight.” In ‘Warlight,’ Echoes of Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Generations of English students have met Charlie Gordon, the book’s narrator, through the journal entries Mr. Keyes crafted in stunted, then elegant and then again stunted prose revealing his character’s transformation. Daniel Keyes, author of the classic book ‘Flowers for Algernon,’ dies at 86

After completing “Terms of Endearment,” he entered what he described as “a literary gloom that lasted from 1975 until 1983,” a period when he came to dislike his own prose. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Her prose is so assured that even when long sentences are jostled by abrupt transitions, the effect appears dramatic and deliberate, like a dancer staring directly at the audience for an infinitesimal pause. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

His final book of prose is a fictional treatment of a friend's suicide and its immediate aftermath. Edouard Levé's 'Works' is charged with wit and wonder 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Scott-Heron, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap with his piercing social and political prose laid against the backdrop of minimalist percussion, flute and other instrumentation, died on Friday at age 62. Gil Scott-Heron, a godfather of rap, dies in NYC 2011-05-29T17:49:11Z

If bad prose is employed with the knowledge it is bad prose and that it will affect the construction of meaning, then yes. The Classic Novel That Makes Percival Everett Cringe 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The shirt of his prose is perpetually untucked and perhaps stained with a splash of red wine. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

In twisting, recursive prose, Metcalf, a former literary editor at Harper’s, delights in the region’s grotesqueries and sensibilities. New in Paperback: ‘Windfall,’ ‘The Ruined House’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the memoir — delivered in dry, often truculent prose — turns out to be mostly a predictable mix of spin, stonewalling, score settling and highly selective reminiscences. Books of The Times: Dick Cheney Tells His Side in Memoir ?In My Time? - Review 2011-08-25T21:28:58Z

Narrative prose is less well suited to the task. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z

As the author of “Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric”— a warmly received study of the patterns of prose — he reminds us that the strongest, most emphatic part of any sentence is its end. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

This and other stories Leonard tells in clear, unadorned prose. The Truth About Koch Industries 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

It's also a book about love, friendship, brotherhood and ultimately the human condition, narrated in a precise, beautifully translated prose. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

And as always in a Parker novel, the dialogue crackles and the prose is world-class. Parker's `Sixkill' has compelling story line 2011-05-04T11:24:12Z

His dizzying interests somehow coalesce in this first novel, with the prose arranged here and there on horizontal lines, like musical notation. T Magazine: Bookshelf 2012-05-09T15:00:22Z

I also love the quiet control of Alison Moore's prose, the way she guides you – through the smallest detail – into strange, dark places. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

Mr. Heggie is not the first composer to have felt the pull of Melville’s prose. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z

What kept drawing me in, however, was Pierce’s clear prose and fine eye for emotional detail. A Debut Novel Traces the Boundary Between Life and Death 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

And yet the dullness of this raw material only makes the energy of Lil Wayne’s prose, and the force of his personality on the page, all the more remarkable. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

But instead of getting to know them through the traditional process of having actors inhabit their hearts and bodies, they are mostly described in screenplay-style prose, often delivered by James in a flat, objective voice. Review: Staging a Movie Melodrama in ‘The Conversationalists’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Fulminating with contempt for England and disdain for the daily grind, he bangs out vitriolic screeds on an old typewriter, the confrontational prose at odds with his diffident manner. Review: ‘England Is Mine,’ a Portrait of Morrissey’s Early Years 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

We can therefore assume that the prose here is pretty much what it's intended to be. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z

The beauty of the prose, the originality of the theme, the honesty of the writer. Hanan al-Shaykh: By the Book 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Oasis Britishness stripped down to its worst and most cynical cliches: arrogance without due, rhyme without style, sarcasm without wit, pose without prose, booze without tolerance, chav without street, repetition without foundation, Wonder without Wall. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

His prose shines: the police searching for Tara are "out like blackberries in September". Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z

And find a prose style that will make that compelling. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z

So it is that a story that, in other hands, might sink with the weight of its own angst, becomes a page-turner with intervals of lapidary prose and dazzling human comprehension. Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami

The novel’s electric prose established Mr. Amis as an important young English writer and won the Somerset Maugham Award for writers under 30. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mathews is an able prose stylist, and breathing life into so many diverse characters is no mean feat. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

I lucked upon brilliant, generous editors who were more interested in developing my half-baked story ideas and refining my prose than having me fetch their coffee. From negging with a pick-up artist to leather hounds: A sex writer’s greatest hits 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The collection includes a selection of Phillip’s work from previous years, along with a lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and a chapbook, “Star Map with Action Figures.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Through immersive prose and a riveting plot, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those who gain it, and those resisting its loss. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Reading his prose is like popping a variant of the red pill in “The Matrix”: Everything gets a little crisper. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

I have enjoyed pull quotes from Henry James and Jane Austen, but reading their prose — forget about it! In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The enjoyment he takes in conjuring Partridge’s prose, even after a long day, is palpable. ‘We've had a love-hate relationship’: Steve Coogan on bringing Alan Partridge back to the BBC 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Saar’s prose soars as the six split off from one another, forge ahead and then come back together in more tender moments — all the while trying desperately to express their freedom. Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Many of the stories read like prose- poems. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek

Mr. Harris’s photographs are inquisitive, and Mr. Wilson’s prose is similarly vivid. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z

The novel progresses at a comfortable pace, thanks to Moore's graceful prose. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z

Her prose is instantly recognisable, with its long, coolly balanced sentences and its precise, startling imagery. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z

The formula we hit upon is "a work of poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction which best explores the queer experience", and is published in the UK in English. The Polari prize takes a vada at gay writing today 2011-07-05T15:06:24Z

Rosenberg’s chimeric prose prevents all of this from feeling too pedantic. Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Catherynne Valente's novels and stories range widely across the fantastic, but it is her dark urban fantasies such as Palimpsest that best showcase her baroque prose style. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z

Thirty-five years later, Shange's prose still begs to be read aloud; you want to feel those words in your mouth. Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls Falls Short 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

He crushes on evasion and ambiguity, but his own prose has always been distinguished by its tautness and agility. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

They were letters on Auschwitz stationery, written in German in rosy prose designed to slip past the censors. At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Preserving a Site and a Ghastly Inventory 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Hemingway is now a byword for straightforward, just-the-facts prose, which may explain why Elevator Repair Service has taken a relatively straightforward approach here. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z

"What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations," Seghal wrote. Inside the cancellation of "American Dirt" (and its book tour) 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

“The Snakes” eventually sloughs off its spookier elements, but the criminal story that emerges grows more shocking because of the rare quality of brutality in Jones’s prose. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

The Oxford don’s own prose is, moreover, a delight to read: fact-filled, nicely balanced between exposition and quotation, confiding and witty. The secret history of Wonderland in ‘The Story of Alice’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Their inner worlds are inseparable from their outer worlds – indeed, all that's left to make a distinction between the two is the author's Hipstamatic imagery and liquid prose. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z

Not just in the novels and stories, but in letters to every sort of addressee, from intimates, to fans, to politicians, Bellow’s prose is electric. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

At times, the prose can feel fusty and twee, especially in creaky turns of phrase: the way a slug chortles “Ho-ho-ho!” over and over or a character is labeled “a most odd-looking little man.” Dark Fairy Tales From a Now-Vanished Agrarian Japan 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

And, while never a firecracker stylist, Rowling almost always writes clean, clear prose, although her marked liking for adjectives and adverbs may have been one of the things that gave her away. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – review 2013-07-18T11:42:26Z

It trundles on, full of interesting details and less interesting prose, with the occasional toe-stubber of a simile along the trail. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Those on large political subjects like mankind’s dubious stewardship of the land, reviewers said, sometimes read better as prose than as poetry. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z

Reading Ms. Proulx’s prose is like bouncing along rutted country roads in a pickup truck with no shock absorbers. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z

“I grew up watching him deliver contemplative and contextual prose with his famous short essays, bringing class and dignity to his industry,” Jim Nantz, the lead CBS Sports announcer, said in a statement. Jack Whitaker, Hall of Fame sports broadcaster, dies at 95 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Wry, dryly funny, patrician, a great mimic, a seasoned anecdotalist, handsome into old age, his spoken sentences as beautifully constructed as his written ones, a lover of the crystalline prose and perfect plotting of P.G. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

Even so, unleavened by the author's playful prose and witty writing, the celluloid version seems starker. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z

Without ever collapsing into nonsense, it’s a remarkably fluid use of prose to represent the experience of delirium while wrestling to the final moments with the challenge of absolution. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

She was praised for her style, which sometimes contained a mythic quality, incorporating multiple voices and story lines and exploring the legacy of slavery in incandescent prose. ‘She Saved Us’: Mourners Pay Tribute to Toni Morrison 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Is the prose enough, or do you miss writing poetry? Interview: Poet Donald Hall 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Brown is poetic and passionate, but another of the book’s flaws is the self-seriousness that infects its prose. What It Means to Be the ‘Token’ Black Kid in a Rich, White World 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

She never condescends, and her fluid prose is suggestive of larger and darker human themes. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Borges’s fiction absorbed Solar’s insightful ruminations about language with a ciphered and understated humor that characterized his mature prose and intellectual pursuits.” ‘Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges’ at Americas Society 2013-04-18T21:09:09Z

The Guardian called him “our purest living prose stylist.” Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z

In vivid prose, he captures the terrifying risks he faces with each cut, each decision. A surgeon confesses his fears — and errors 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

But it's not a put-down of the darker and more straightforward "Last Lions" to suggest "Cats" is to "Lions" what poetry is to prose. 'African Cats': fiercely entertaining ? and kid-friendly, too 2011-04-21T22:13:34Z

Nell Zink’s surname, which seems to combine the words “zing” and “sink,” happens to be a nice distillation of her prose style. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

If you've been to see contemporary art in the last three decades, you will probably be familiar with the feelings of bafflement, exhaustion or irritation that such gallery prose provokes. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z

It’s a lovely bit of writing – Nuttall-Smith is a wizard with descriptive prose. ‘The chef started crying’: the Toronto critic who can make or break a restaurant 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

In addition, White’s prose is sometimes so worked up and strained as to become comic, as when he describes a man “drawn” to another man’s member “like a sunflower to the sun.” Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Berry proved in “Under the Harrow” that her prose can be as blistering as it is lush. A Daughter’s Search for a Father Wanted for Murder 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

In 1971, he published "Tarantula," a volume of prose poetry that was widely reviled by critics. New book of Bob Dylan lyrics to sell for $200 -- and $5,000 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Philip Roth wrote with poise; His prose made you shiver. Style Invitational Week 1313: Dead Letters — our obit poem contest 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

There’s something that about the level of ambiguity and incompleteness offered by both shows that reminds me of prose; both require the listener or reader to fill in the blanks. The Strange Pleasures of Watching Radio 2013-07-24T16:53:29Z

There was also the pressure inherent in adapting what he called “some of the most startling prose of the 21st century.” Benedict Cumberbatch on His Emmy Nod for Bringing Patrick Melrose to Life 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Mukand's lucid, clear prose distills complex neuroscience in a way that is as easy to follow as an episode of "ER." 'The Man with the Bionic Brain': a technological prescription for paralysis 2012-09-05T22:17:06Z

“Nowhere Boy” is elegantly structured, plausible in its improbable plot and studded with moments of rapturous prose. Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

All of his novels demonstrate an extraordinary, lively and witty prose, crammed with ironies and changes of perspective. Profile: Philip Roth 2011-03-30T13:53:28Z

"Paula, whose prose is quite spare but never feels `minimal' or skeletal at all, shows us that all so-called minimalism is good old-fashioned carefulness in narration." Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z

As the narrative ends, her prose, too, breaks down into elemental, insurgent verse: Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Man with The Wooden Hat is written in a series of fast-moving vignettes, its prose and conversation frequently fleeting and elliptical, as if in counterpoint to the decades-long marriage it seeks to depict. Jane Gardam 2011-01-10T08:00:00Z

Slate reports that the book does cover those areas -- "in the most boring prose imaginable." Sex ed book too sexy for 9th graders in Fremont 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

This would all seem a bit much, and yet there is indeed something remarkable about Mr Cohen’s prose. Searching and slouching 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

And while the conservator is nothing if not respectful of his writing friend — he would never consider meddling with Silva’s prose — there was one proposed twist in “The Heist” he couldn’t accept. Daniel Silva is the best-selling author of the Gabriel Allon series. Meet his secret adviser 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

In English prose, an urging motion is all; Moran quotes the music critic Ian Penman, who calls rhythm “the whisper of unremitting demand.” Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Yet Dorey-Stein’s spunk and her sparkling, crackling prose had me cheering for her through each adventure. A White House Memoir That’s Equal Parts C-Span and ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you how many times people have said to me, because I also write prose, ‘Oh, you’re also a real writer.’ Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

And though much of Pereira de Almeida’s prose reads like lyrical stream of consciousness, her use of Mila’s hair as a metaphor, the perfect stand-in for all her questions of identity, is universal. For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

O’Brien’s prose reverberates with fiery crashes, then stings with the tragedy of lives lost in the cockpit and sometimes, equally heartbreakingly, on the ground. Five Women Who Made Aviation History 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Then, as they hop from Grimms' Fairy Tales to a collection of ghost stories, the contrasting prose styles challenge characters and audience alike. The Boy Who Fell Into a Book – review 2012-07-26T16:12:30Z

This week, the platforms made their usual weak-tea excuses, accompanied by vague pledges of reform — delivered in the equally familiar robotic prose: Perspective | When Facebook and Google are ‘weaponized,’ the victim is reality 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Laird, the author of two previous novels and several acclaimed collections of poetry, dazzles ear and eye with his kinetic prose, animating city, countryside and, later, tropical jungle. From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

A slight sense of withholding gives Munro's prose its gracefulness, and allows intimacy without danger. Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z

Critics divided sharply on the more intricate middle novels, whose prose struck many as mannered. Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 2011-01-21T06:23:00Z

This prose style is Self’s shtick, along with issuing provocations in the newspapers, such as his pronouncement in the Guardian, earlier this year, that the novel is well and truly dead. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Those affinities, those likenesses, are all over Wright’s work, whether it comes in prose blocks, or in short, hard lines like the stems on berries, or in long Whitmanesque lifelines. Poet C.D. Wright was 'one of the great ones' 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Murdoch’s prose is elegant, validating itself by its own certainty. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Grace finds happiness in writing, bits and pieces of prose that define her sunny outlook despite a tense, unhappy domestic life. Marvel a marvel in diffuse 'Book of Grace' in NY 2010-03-18T01:46:00Z

If you’re about to pipe up now and assure the rest of us just how appalled you were by James’ prose, for the love of God, give it a rest. “50 Shades”: Not actually the end of civilization as we know it, guys 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

You stick with “Reading My Father” not for this overview but for the restrained agility of Ms. Styron’s own prose. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z

It’s an attempt to have the cachet of reinventing the traditional structure of narrative prose fiction without actually having to do the hard work implied by modernist insight. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

With visceral prose as taut as his teenage linebacker protagonist, Zentner has written a novel about white supremacy that invites us to see how bigotry operates in real life. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The novel is titled “A Song Everlasting,” which sounds, as with so much of Jin’s prose, like a poorly translated Chinese phrase. Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’ 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

No science fiction author of his generation had a more polished or more poetic prose style — a skill that stood out all the more given the slap-dash sentence of his pulp fiction contemporaries. Ray Bradbury: The man who made sci-fi respectable 2012-06-06T20:30:00Z

Reflecting the chaos of war, the fractured narrative jumps around in time and location, but Powers anchors it with crystalline prose and a driving mystery: How did the narrator’s friend die? 10 Best Books of 2012 2012-11-30T16:00:09Z

The book begins with Wilson’s victorious welcome in Europe for the Treaty of Versailles; the rest follows like a haunted Shakespearean tragedy in vivid novelistic prose. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

As I look back on our most-read pieces of 2018, some core attributes come to mind: quality prose; depth of reporting and thought; a commitment to truth and accuracy; a desire to inform and enlighten. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Stories of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

When he describes being punished as a boy for some small offense at school, for example, his prose is witheringly exact and worth reading slowly and closely: You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s why fragments are automatically poetic: Erasure turns prose into poems. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

A sometimes ghastly mix of covert self-congratulation, awkward confession and wry philosophizing undercut by heavy-handed irony, Red Book prose can be an exercise in confessional self-concealment. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z

A reminder that its prose writers weren’t half bad either. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Jaime and Maya — who share their perspectives in comic panels and in prose — learn more about what they value in friends as they navigate this middle school drama. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘True Friends’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

All told in spare, ironic prose with not an extra ounce of flesh on it. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

That memoir demonstrated that Mr. Dylan could write prose as fluently as lyrics. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

These moments are the only ones when the show seems to fulfill its intentions of finding the ghastly poetry that lurks in everyday prose. Theater Review: MCC?s ?Carrie? the Musical at the Lucille Lortel 2012-03-02T03:00:01Z

The prose in “Art in America 1945-1970” is not limited to the subjects of painting and sculpture. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

His prose is vivid and precise, his sense of setting sharply illuminating. 'The Convert's Song' is a skillfully layered thriller 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

When this happened in the book, everything was rationalised through prose. Catch-22: has George Clooney broken the curse of the unfilmable novel? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

They have Strunk and White, whose "omit needless words" and "prefer the standard to the offbeat" have reverberated through American prose for half a century. A lesson in teaching writing 2011-02-21T12:30:53Z

When I am really feeling life and being truthful, the resulting prose is comic. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Very quickly, as captured in a breathless, downhill prose, the chaos of filmmaking soon becomes inseparable from the vortex of the filmmaker, around which everything else circles and seems in danger of disappearing into. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z

She accomplished in verse what Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,” did in prose. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z

That elusive lightning is the electricity in the hopped-up prose of “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel, which a decade after its publication inspired countless stoned hippie odysseys to Haight-Ashbury and beyond. Movie Review: ‘On the Road,’ Directed by Walter Salles 2012-12-20T23:12:37Z

Even if most of his fiction is already forgotten, his polished, digressive essays — models of mandarin prose — deserve to attract new readers. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

He enlivens his account with comments from many fans and foes, and wisely, frequently quotes his subject's invigorating prose — still well worth a read, and an argument. 5 great gift books for performing-arts fans 2011-12-15T21:11:25Z

If your interest is Ancient Rome, you should definitely bring with you “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,” by the British historian Mary Beard, whose sparkling prose makes the ancients our contemporaries. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

In luscious prose, Thorp explores the nameless queen’s untold story, one that — in keeping with the spirit of Shakespeare’s original — is rife with cruelty, betrayal and passion. You Know About King Lear. A New Novel Tells His Banished Queen’s Tale. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

His prose seems to reflect his preferred mode of politics: earnest, respectful and pragmatic. In ‘The People vs. Democracy,’ Trump Is Just One Populist Among Many 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Detractors questioned the accuracy of some of Mr. Davis’s assertions and the hyperbole of his prose. Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Occasionally workmanlike prose and the frequent switches between various plots and settings are off-putting at times, but Final Days is an impressive achievement. Final Days by Gary Gibson – review 2012-06-26T10:45:02Z

There’s a wonderful discordance between the cool, reflective quality of Singh’s prose and the colorful imagery and powerful longing in her narratives. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

In “The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin,” Beth Henley attempts the tricky task of turning an elliptical tale told in dense first-person prose into a conventional play. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

It follows the character Leopold Bloom through Dublin over the course of a single day – 16 June 1904, to be precise – but it's best known for its stream-of-consciousness prose style and its dense, complex structure. Pass notes, No 2,955: Ulysses 2011-04-06T19:00:02Z

As the action catches fire, Abel’s prose turns leaner and more focused, the pace swifter, and the characters — Rush and Vleska, in particular — more singular and sympathetic. Book review: ‘White Plague,’ a thriller by James Abel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

This is not measured, careful prose, it is bold, messy bravura; tightrope-writing. Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z

Her gorgeous, lilting prose vibrates with fight, destabilizing patriarchal norms with questions of power and want, identity and self-determination to timeless and timely results. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

The beauty of Mantel’s prose, her sly, unexpected use of language, the emotional resonance braided into the narrative — all these propel you along. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

In spare, direct prose, she takes readers into the world of African-American sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Shiel’s “Shapes in the Fire,” composed in a feverish, overwrought prose, clearly revel in what the poet Swinburne once memorably described as “the raptures and roses of vice.” Review | The ’90s are having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s. . . 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Ozick, who is a gifted writer, absolutely brings to life, in her peerless prose and perceptiveness, the character of both Roth and the biography itself. Philip Roth, ‘Middlemarch’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

He too wrote a number of works of prose poetry; one of the most successful of these is the Kora in Hell: Improvisations sequence. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

“Impossible Causes” also jumps back and forth in time in ways that can be as foggy as the landscape the author evokes in passages of archaic prose. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

But that doesn’t diminish the cumulative effect of the graceful prose, which reaches back in the best way to its noir predecessors. After 18 Years in Prison, a Woman Tries to Find Her Way Home 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Throughout, Wood’s lush prose modulates gently between the three women’s voices, incorporating Pepper’s childish colloquialisms, Ada’s bluff irritation and Pearl’s confused meanderings without ever loosing its lyrical power. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

With fast-paced prose and an ear for authentic dialogue, Shen brings big emotions and ideas to the hyper-focused world of the obsessive skater. Figuring It Out: Two Novels About Ice Skating and Adolescence 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z

And, contrary to wide belief, Shakespeare plays are also full of prose. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z

The prose sometimes overheats and boils over into movie trailer hyperbole. Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z

His technique was also one of spareness and simplicity, much like Hemingway’s prose. B.B. King dies: Generations of guitarists used 'B.B. Box' to learn how to play 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Despite the economy of her prose, Levy’s writing is psychologically complex, and Prosser said that “beneath the surface of these words that are so beautifully placed” are “undercurrents,” which give her work its power. With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Her prose is so visual and conducive to film -- kind of like an audiobook for the eyes,” he said. Joan Didion documentary: Griffin Dunne on telling his aunt's story 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Blackstock said he was captivated by the “clarity of voice and the metaphorical, rich prose,” and by Nguyen’s provocative subversion of the spy thriller. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Ackerman, a former Marine who served multiple tours of duty in the Middle East and Asia, has been compared with Hemingway, for the clarity of his prose and his international settings. Review | In Elliot Ackerman’s ‘Red Dress in Black and White,’ a viral photo at a Turkish protest sets a plot in motion 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Hunter Davies's authorised biography was published in 1968, admirably researched and brimming with access – but stymied by his artless prose, and the constraints of being the band's in-house writer. The best books on the Beatles 2012-09-26T07:00:15Z

Yet his more sober prose is often very good. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Here, Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace. Téa Obreht Reinvents the Western Novel — and Brings Camels 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

One of his great gifts is for blending what is clearly a large amount of research, on many topics, into alert, humane, nonwonky prose. Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

It takes away the descriptive elements which can weigh down prose while still engaging your imagination in a way film does not. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Intentionally emulating Shange, Scott divides poetry and prose monologues among seven actors. Perspective | On Broadway, ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ and ‘Lackawanna Blues’ deliver stories that defy stereotypes 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The prose is not pretty; the sentences are long but not ornate. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Well, I mean, her prose isn’t that controlled. She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Our columnist Marilyn Stasio praised the novel and its central character, writing that “Anderson rewards him with a deadly adventure and the most poetic prose this side of Salt Lake City.” New in Paperback: ‘What Happened,’ ‘A Good Country’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Paired with the images, the text too becomes almost visual in its way, ranging from descriptive prose contextualizing what is shown in the portraits, to poetry, to statements on the social experience of blackness. Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Lunenfeld gets out of his own way for a spell, and the prose starts to bloom. The City of Angels, Viewed Through a Prism 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

It sounds platitudinous enough, but it isn’t, thanks to Hall’s tight yet modest prose. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The language toggles between a kind of prose poetry and more pedestrian dialogue. Review: ‘How to Get Into Buildings’ Finds Love Amid a Crash, a Duel and Soups of the Day 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The visceral punch and drive of its prose in many bravura passages—notably, the lorry crash that buries Gaza in a tide of corpses—evokes Irvine Welsh or William Burroughs more than “Oliver Twist”. People-smugglers 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Orwell calls instead for prose that reaches for fresh metaphors and that is precise and concrete. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Published in 1950, Paz’s essay endures for its imaginative associations and musical prose, though it is contentious: Some anthropologists and historians consider his definition of Mexicanness to be Manichaean and contrived. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Aside from a few rhetorical flourishes, the prose is refined, intense, and poetically physical. Andrés Neuman crosses boundaries across the Americas in 'How to Travel Without Seeing' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

While Maclean’s journalistic prose is sharp and concise, it can also be beautiful. The backstory for ‘A River Runs Through It’ has arrived, 45 years later 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Not so much a travelogue as a travel meditation, it favors lush prose, colorful digressions, inconsistencies of approach and no small portion of eccentricity. 'The Old Ways': Walking as a way of 'feeling, knowing and being' 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z

Mr. McCann has an annoying habit here of embroidering his prose. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z

This process was very different, he said, because his enthusiasm for Mr. Pynchon’s dense prose made it tough to compress. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Ann Packer’s new novel, “The Children’s Crusade,” recounts the story of the Blairs, a privileged, upper-middle-class family, in smooth, unsurprising, white-bread prose. ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ by Ann Packer 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The prose here is complex and largely free of lyricism; instead, McCarthy opts for the precision of scientific or instructional language. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

His own prose style may have been spare and economical, but he was unable to part with the words, printed or written, of just about anyone else. Batch of Hemingway Ephemera From Cuba Is Digitized 2014-02-10T22:52:36Z

At the end of each episode, Hardwick’s guests must create original prose inspired by their conversation. Celebrities branch out with podcasts of their own 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The lively language shifts easily enough from prose to monologue, and Byrne — with his wide, serious face, his bright, worried eyes, his voice like the growl of a polite bear — is compulsively watchable. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

“We will miss his quick wit, wry humor, felicitous prose, and savvy advice,” the Met said in its announcement. A Stalwart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Step Down 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

That would be a kind of magic that is purely theatrical yet somehow channels the addictive narrative grip of Ms. Rowling’s prose. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

There’s an obviousness to the prose in these tales; they lack the crucial suggestion of something more under the surface. ‘Tehran Noir’ depicts the Iranian capital as more gray than black

TheyGirls had good degrees now, bold ideas about their own economic and intellectual status, and were unlikely to want to sublimate their own identity to someone else's, no matter how revolutionary his prose style. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z

His prose remained elegant while his life became crumpled. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z

His prose brings back much of the original swagger and sharpness. Duty and the beast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The prose itself is smart, fluent and relentlessly spry. Breaking Night by Liz Murray ? review 2011-01-30T00:20:00Z

The staff barely touches the prose; they will fix the author’s spelling, grammar and punctuation or redact a name, but they will not correct facts. She broke your heart. He left you. An L.A. museum wants to know all about it. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

For a critic, his descriptive prose groans under comatose adverbs and adjectives. Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z

Unfortunately, his prose lacks Mr Goldblatt’s fluidity, and his descriptions of matches and players are frequently ponderous. Intersections 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Tambor is referring to the jitters every writer faces as they share their prose with the world. “Are You Anybody?” Salon talks to Jeffrey Tambor about his new book 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

He loves monsters, gorillas and angels, and spends hours writing weird prose about witches and zombies. How we live together: the father and son 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

There are also, perhaps inevitably, a few unforgettable shards of prose. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

It then fell on Rankine, and a diverse artistic team led by the director Taibi Magar, to turn that prose into a full-fledged theater experience. Claudia Rankine Looks at White Privilege From 35,000 Feet 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

But though the quality of "Discovery's" prose remains no more than clear and serviceable, its erudite references to the leather-bound boards of incunabulae and secret ingredients in medieval inks make it a welcome relief. 'A Discovery of Witches': at Oxford University, unrest among the supernatural set 2011-02-17T21:27:04Z

He wrote prose as well as poetry, epics as well as lyrics, was a master of metre, and fluent in many languages. Poem of the week: From Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy 2010-08-16T09:35:00Z

Within this, there is a more nuanced, and thus more mesmerizing, consideration of purpose and atonement, but because it’s subsumed by Cueto’s flailing prose and tiresome stereotypes, in the end, it doesn’t amount to much. The Problem of Wartime Guilt and Its Long Life Span 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Reading Cross-Smith's lush prose is like wrapping yourself in a very soft and warm sweater. Beach reads for dark summer days: 7 books to soothe the burn 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

His prose itself was often described as musical, and he had a lexicographer’s command of the language on which to draw. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Books written in magazine prose — conversational, breezy, without a distractingly idiosyncratic line, paragraphs chopped up short for easy digestion, the references current and pop-cultural. A Habitual Liar Almost Conned Abby Ellin Into Marrying Him. Instead, He Gave Her the Idea for a Book. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Spitz adds, demonstrating an occasional tendency toward extravagant prose, “Dutch was a magnet for gushing teenage beauties who mooned over his studly appeal.” A New Biography of Ronald Reagan Captures His Passion for Stardom 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

That much is obvious from his unremittingly polemical prose. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

There is a virtue sometimes in admitting that we are not really there, in leaving the descriptive flourish aside and letting expository prose do the hard work. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z

Later still, Renaissance prose romances had no need of chapters. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

But with subtle prose and sardonic humor Ms. Olafsdottir upends expectations, steering clear of sentimentality throughout. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Not only does Vo capture the timbre of Fitzgerald’s lush prose, but she follows the trajectory of the novel’s contrails into another realm. Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

It’s surprising for one of the country’s most famous playwrights to turn to prose instead of drama, but Ensler says she needed the isolation of a book to get her story down. Review | Eve Ensler waited decades for an apology from her abusive father. She finally wrote one herself. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

That said: The only Chandler quotation that appears in Bartlett’s comes to just three words — “The Big Sleep” — and the man deserves a lengthier rap sheet of his inspired prose gambits. ‘The World of Raymond Chandler,’ Edited by Barry Day 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mitcham’s prose is straightforward, and he turns a nice phrase—he describes one faltering infantry charge that “choked on its own blood.” ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Roberts is a poet and this is reflected in a prose which is concise and rhythmically paced. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z

Zapata’s carefully crafted prose oscillates between matter-of-fact and lyrically poetic, a tonal range that provides a very pleasant reading experience. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

The result for many of his works, including “Hard Like Water,” is a kind of ecstatic, jumpy prose. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Now he is contributing to another big-screen anthology, the animated film adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s book of prose poetry, “The Prophet.” Bill Plympton Lends His Animation Skills to 'Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

“And prose too, Uncle. Shall I bring some to show you?’ ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Shepard appeared in more than 60 films, and wrote several works of prose and 55 plays, including “True West,” “Fool for Love” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Buried Child.” A New Novel From the Late Sam Shepard to Be Published in December 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

As Joyce Carol Oates has said, "the Joycean short story is immediately recognisable as a sub-genre in which the directness of the prose and the suggestive ellipsis of poetry are blended". A brief survey of the short story 2011-03-09T09:41:46Z

“The director has produced a colorful, affecting collage of Dickensian moods and motifs,” Mr. Scott wrote, “a movie that elicits an overwhelming desire to plunge into 900 pages of 19th-century prose.” Douglas McGrath, Playwright, Filmmaker and Actor, Dies at 64 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hellman, a veteran journalist who covered the case, allows the story to unfold with spare prose. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

A: What I liked is his lack of hypocrisy and the artfulness of the prose. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

In it a translator takes it upon himself, with amusing results, to “improve” the prose of the German novelist whose work he is supposed to render into Turkish. Books of the Times: In Europe, Mixing Union and Diversity 2010-12-29T23:29:44Z

“Known for his spare, striking and powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee has left an indelible mark on our culture,” said the Ransom Center director, Thomas F. Staley. ArtsBeat Blog: University of Texas Acquires Coetzee's Papers 2011-10-10T16:38:07Z

The prose is superbly controlled, richly textured, brimming with wise and lyrical insights that make it a worthy heir to its mighty predecessor. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

"Your prose are just gripping; I feel it!" "Rap Sh!t" blows up the practice of artists being exploited on their way up (or out) 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her prose sports a kind of rawness that’s really the fruit of subtle artfulness. Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Some 30 travel pieces, in prose sparkling with insight, describe “places in the throes of transformation.” 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Rather irritating and prose and half-baked stories that are as cliche as.. er.. sliced bread. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and the books you are reading today 2012-11-06T16:20:02Z

About them, she writes, in the sort of homely prose that fills this book, “They were middle-class folks who loved God, family and their country.” Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z

He cited Philip Roth’s distilled, understated prose in “Nemesis” and Cormac McCarthy’s spare dystopian novel, “The Road,” as one model, and Bob Dylan’s warm, lush late style as another possible path. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

This was vintage Kent, deflecting attention from himself, just like his spare prose, which keeps the light on his characters. What novelist Kent Haruf taught me about writing and life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The prose here is beautiful but sometimes plodding, largely focused on establishing character and events. ‘Inheritance From Mother’: A must-read novel about the tangled bonds of motherhood 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

A die-hard Yankees fan since boyhood, he loves baseball but doesn’t let this taint his judgment or his prose. ‘Class A’: An unforgettable year with a Mariners farm team 2013-05-24T15:46:33Z

But her habit of getting great dirt, along with her lightning-fast publishing speed and gleeful prose style, made the age-old daily papers and trade publications seem fusty by comparison. The Last Days of Hollywood’s Most Reviled Reporter 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

Gray’s prose is ideally suited to writing this particular life. Amelia Gray's 'Isadora' is a heavenly celebration of women in charge of their bodies 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

It was such perfection in both plotting and prose that I knew I could never match it. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

This is all conveyed in Doyle’s silver-polished prose that does justice to Stevenson while celebrating the story as a literary art. Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘lost novel’ is a fantastic voyage 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

No small additional encouragement is the author’s ability to explore moral complexities in lean and evocative prose, with a light hand on the symbolism. Former journalist David Savill's fiction debut, ‘They are Trying to Break Your Heart', is searing 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Following Ms. Fisher’s death on Tuesday, some novelists praised her prose as being as blunt, funny and honest — much like Ms. Fisher. Carrie Fisher’s Fans Find Solace in Her Books 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

In luminous prose, the novel maps Evie’s obsessive psyche, demonstrating her hunger to be accepted by the other girls, especially the family’s ringleader, Suzanne. Mean girls 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

A professor at the University of Padua in Italy recently called on academics to use quantitative analysis to compare Ms. Ferrante’s prose to Mr. Starnone’s. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The phrase seems nearly heretical, an incursion of fuzzy warmth into the normally arctic realm of museum prose. Recalling Sarah Charlesworth’s Photographs 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

And as the brand names and celebrity names pile up, along with a few bodies, it’s hard for the reader to hold onto the manic energy in Wright’s prose. A Bag of Cash Falls From the Sky. Trouble Is Close Behind. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

His singular critical prose — in The Village Voice and Vibe, among other outlets, and collected in two anthologies — seamlessly fused dense, dazzling vernacular wisdom and street corner wit with equally intricate ivory tower analytic discourse. The Vitality of Black Criticism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The prose is also less epigrammatic than in those works — a return, in some sense, to the fuller language of “Cleaned Out.” Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

His prose gets out of the way of the action; you look through the words, not at them. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z

Authors of crime fiction, children's novelists, short story, poetry or prose writers are all encouraged to apply. Last call for 2013's new writing talent in the north 2013-01-25T07:00:00Z

With little in the way of flowery prose or colorful exposition, much of the Baedeker reads more like a dictionary than a Lonely Planet guide. Footsteps: The Highlands by Rail, With 1910 Baedeker in Hand 2010-05-07T16:41:00Z

I want to commend you on the warm pictures and insightful prose in “The Obama Years.” Letters: Magazine readers respond 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

From the French symbolist poet Paul Fort she learned a technique of writing "polyphonic prose" – prose which used the different voices of poetry, such as "metre, vers libre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme and return". Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z

At the time, I was still as much of a poet as a prose writer and my mother’s inscription says: To Cheryl, The 20th, 21st century poet. How Libraries Saved Cheryl Strayed 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

All this and prose that’s on fire, a plot without rivets and a healthy undercurrent of humor. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

“Write the way you speak,” Brown admonished, and for better or worse, both Hauser and Hirshey use prose strongly inflected — you might even say infected — with Brown’s own idioms and idiosyncrasies. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Pardlo shares these reflections in prose that seems powerful and effortless. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

He couldn’t much abide reading “junk prose,” or watching television or movies, but he was mesmerized and thrilled by sports, and especially the Red Sox: “I sit with my mouth open, witlessly enraptured.” Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

A prose poem addressed to a silent interlocutor, and a memoir of the horrors of the war as witnessed by the author himself, it is a superb book with which to start. Read Your Way Through Lisbon 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Marc Palmieri’s “The Groundling,” is half comedy and half tragedy, half verse and half prose. Review: ‘The Groundling,’ a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Seshadri is fluent in an unusually wide range of forms — he ranges here from rhymed quatrains to fat blocks of prose — and his voice is typically chatty, probing, importuning, self-mocking. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

“I realized I was kind of a lousy poet, but I could take all of these things I had learned about writing poetry and use it to write prose,” he told me. The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Her life alone could be the stuff of noir novels and it is not surprising that she echoed it in her prose. Memories on High and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

The prose itself is violent — moving back and forth between present and future, changing mode of address constantly, seeding mistrust, contradicting itself and omitting details. How novelist Fernando Vallejo's work reveals Colombia's deep divisions 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

This is not to paint Aickman as some avant-garde prose stylist, spinning gaudy riddles for his reader. Scary stories for Halloween: The Hospice by Robert Aickman 2012-10-29T10:43:57Z

He has done the hard historical work of poring over treaty records, council meeting records, journals and receipts, and rendered it all in gorgeously understated prose. Two new Native American histories -- one tragic, one a revelation 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

In a genre that can be numbingly formulaic and indifferently composed, she remains a masterful builder of mood, her voluptuous prose heavy with sex and weather. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

There’s something tricky about publishing a poet’s prose. A Poet Traces Her Personal Obsessions, in Prose 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

No matter how nightmarish the events described, Ligotti’s prose is always precise and beautifully controlled. Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers: Get ready to be grossed out 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Purple prose about wines imbued with “emotion” reads like gullible hype. The cult of natural wine – 'this is like punk or acid house' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

It is written in the most glorious prose, its beat and buoyancy delivered by Dominic Hoffman. Review | For your quarantine stroll, three great new audiobooks 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Unlike the chiseled tales of her contemporary Raymond Carver, Berlin’s beautiful, rangy prose builds into unpredictable shapes that speak of the sprawling rural and urban western and South American landscapes that fueled her imagination. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Most are just a few pages in length; two pieces, "The Poet" and "The Skol," are only four lines long and read like prose poems. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The Hungarian is not the first modernist to manhandle prose and use the sentence as instrument. Transcendental meditation 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Rendered on screen or even in prose, all this might have felt like a fan-fic edition of the Daily Mail. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

But the self-conscious preachiness and gaseous prose of the first book have been toned down. What Did the Fiction Best-Seller List Look Like 25, 50, 75 Years Ago? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Brandon’s love of language has been evident since his first novel,” Smith Henderson writes in his review, “but in terms of sheer prose, ‘Ivory Shoals’ is a luxury of vocabulary, diction and old-timey usage. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

“She takes care not to sensationalize, presenting even the most harrowing scenes in graceful, understated prose, and gives us a powerful book about living a meaningful life during the most difficult of times.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Her experiences resulted in the prose book Dragon Rampant, besides the series of poems which includes "Ku Li". Poem of the week: Ku Li by Robin Hyde 2011-02-28T12:55:00Z

The other criticism of the passive voice is that it recurs in the worst kind of prose: leaden academic and bureaucratic writing in particular. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Johnson’s lyrical prose breathes life into the New York City of 200 years ago. Deep Below Rockefeller Center Lies a Legendary Botanical Garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The notion of the social contract was popularised by Rousseau, whose prose inspired generations of left-wing European revolutionaries just as conservatives were about to be guillotined. Seeking a way forward 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

That’s way too much prose for any paragraph, never mind a lead. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Hazleton’s portrait of Muhammad in prose is refreshing, considering his physical depiction is forbidden according to Islamic teaching and grounds for protest in the Islamic world. Biography paints portrait of Muhammad as prophet, man 2013-01-17T22:06:50Z

Now I know it was the robust poetry doing its job inside the prose — that natural convergence of sacred and profane. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

A recounting of an intricate, lurid caper, in the form of a confession by its anti-hero, Huff, the story and Cain's hard-edge prose style appealed to readers — if not so much to pulp-averse literary critics. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

In his prose there is no nostalgia, but there is genuine affection, rough and profound. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

In jargon-free prose, Mr Wenar argues persuasively that Western consumers are blinded to the fact that international trade still operates according to the “law of the jungle”. Corrupted bounty 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

At Thompson’s peak, his prose burned, with references, re-inventions and risk. If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

If there aren’t many grace notes in his prose, neither is there much perceptive musical criticism. Review: Paul McCartney’s Yesterdays. All of Them. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

One might read them as anecdotal for the Iranian-American experience, but rendered in Vossoughi’s epigrammatic prose they ultimately unfold through the language of the universal. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

If anything, its memorable imagery and range of registers, coupled with a formal restlessness that encompasses everything from loose quatrains to tumbling prose poems, make it an unusually animated and refreshing read. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z

Shortly after World War II, a young Englishman decides to trek across the Empty Quarter of Arabia; his spare prose captures the vanishing nomadic way of life in one of the planet’s harshest environments. 11 Books About Obsessive Searches 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

"On reading the text aloud, I realised the piece worked similarly to prose," said Carlier, who lives and works in Dorking, Surrey. Sound piece wins £8,000 drawing prize 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

And he shows you how, with illustrative photos and clear prose. 7 new reasons to fire up your smokers this summer 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Criticism, reviews, the occasional prose piece and Mr. Hitchcock’s collages rounded out the content. George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96 2010-09-04T05:04:00Z

Accordingly, he has moved some scenes around and borrowed passages from a related prose work by George Wilkins, Shakespeare’s likely collaborator on the play. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Despite this chaotic format, the rhythm of Bitov’s prose is so consistently brilliant that readers will have no trouble moving through the narrative, even if they have no idea where the author is taking them. Review: ‘The Symmetry Teacher’ by Andrei Bitov

If anything unites the pieces here aside from the smart prose, it’s the urge to honor lives lived on the margins. The best of literary magazines in three new collections

Many sections open with descriptions of sunlight or the deepening darkness of nightfall, as if to set the scene with a prose painting of the surroundings. Review: Strout's new novel a Maine family saga 2013-03-25T18:00:10Z

In 2014, Vreeland’s grandson Alexander introduced a perfume house in her honor, giving the fragrances hyperbolic names in the style of her florid prose. This Summer, Smell Like Fruit Salad 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s this obsessiveness, coupled with French’s smooth, almost satiny prose, that made “Broken Harbor” and “The Secret Place” such knockout books. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

In transparent prose, Mr. Liem looks back on the winemaking history of the region, which has been obscured in effervescent mythology. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Speaking of bounce: Gelb’s adaptation renders Borges’s prose as a long poem. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

From the age of 16, I got into the habit of memorising passages of poetry and compiling detailed indexes in the backs of books of prose. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

But springing to Orwell's defence, LakerFan said that dismissing his prose as pedestrian points to a superficial reading of the book. Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z

By telling their stories — in alliterative, associative prose that can sound a lot like poetry — Mr. Gordon is, of course, telling his own. Review: Recalling an Electric New York in ‘Radicals in Miniature’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

As Delbanco observes, “To read the irritable prose in Jefferson’s advertisement alongside the same writer’s soaring calls for liberty in the Declaration is, to put it mildly, a startling experience.” How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Her clear prose unknots a dense tangle of academic concepts along the way. Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Larson’s speculative soul reading is useful but perilous — not so much because it risks misrepresenting Cage’s thinking, but because it can sometimes generate homely, overempathetic prose. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z

The prose, lightly sparkling with argumentation and abundant with choice metaphors, is such that “Audience of One” reads like not just an essential American Studies text but as an epic disaster tale. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

In that way — as with her sturdy narrative prose, gilded about with the occasional grace-note — it also reminded me of “The Razor’s Edge,” only turned inside out. Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

He was inquisitive, challenging of pompous authority, and a beautiful crafter of television prose. Letter: How Ian Breach confused Christmas TV schedulers 2013-02-21T17:30:23Z

There’s nothing like regret and Gaelic retrospect to find the poetry in the prose of the everyday. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

It may come wrapped in musky perfume, but Ondaatje's prose could go a few rounds with Hemingway and probably knock out Kipling, too. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z

Injured in battle, he later wrote extensively about his experiences in both poetry and prose. Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2012-09-18T00:04:57Z

The imaginative scope was undeniably breathtaking, but the prose I found jarringly clunky at times, the storyline sometimes overwrought. 'Eleven-year-old me was very, very happy!' You review His Dark Materials 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

I repeat my belief that grammar is good for the grey matter, not to mention the beauty of English prose. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z

The prose poems of “Illuminations” defy literal interpretation, and it’s best to sit back and let the hallucinogenic images swirl over and around you. Review: ‘Rimbaud in New York’ Splices the Genes of the Original Outlaw Artist 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Anne Fadiman’s prose, like a proper gentleman’s suit, is beautifully tailored without drawing attention to itself. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Such a crude summary fails to convey the measured beauty of Matar’s transparent prose, which rewards repeated readings. Review | Hisham Matar follows his Pulitzer-winning ‘The Return’ with a meditation on art amid mourning 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

When she must be absolutely clear on what’s happened, Long Soldier writes in prose. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

This might be blanched prose, but it also sounds like a sly subtweet of the Republican Party. Will Democracy Survive President Trump? Two New Books Aren’t So Sure 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

That’s what I would aspire to write in any joke or any written prose, television script, anything. Barbra Streisand, James Corden and More on Their Favorite Sondheim Song 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

They will find a piercingly clear and authoritative voice in both poetry and prose, able to assert itself on seemingly any topic, which will serve as a model for inaugurating and explaining future paradigm shifts. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

My grandmother talked about her roses, her nandina, her gardenia, her voice thick southern prose. The First (and Last) Time She Didn’t Come Home 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Here we inhabit the worlds of authors and mothers, children and friends; we experience their lives in clear, graceful prose that swells with generous possibility. Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

In his most purple passages, he writes like Oscar Wilde on steroids; there's sometimes a Paterian luxuriance in the prose, a specifying gorgeousness. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z

The historical details were, of course, only a side dish; the main course was romance, served in prose typical of the genre. Julie Garwood, Best-Selling Romance Novelist, Dies at 78 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

I started on one of those old Amstrad machines. Since then I've used Word for prose and Final Draft software for scripts. Jed Mercurio: My desktop 2013-05-29T08:00:01Z

I prefer artwork that is more poetic than prose, that engages you to draw from yourself, but forms that challenge you to think, What is that supposed to be? Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

She can do more or less everything we ask of prose. Why Hilary Mantel deserves another prize 2013-03-08T09:52:28Z

The prose is very plain; the characters are a little abstract; the questions they ask aren't quite as interesting as they suppose. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z

Chivers’s book is the prose equivalent, full of nouns and the simplest, least affected adjectives. On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

The critical reception of “Spare” has been mixed, with some reviewers praising the prose but questioning whether Harry went too far into airing petty grievances. Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

The intimate and the instructive are never far apart for Ms. Scott; neither are lyrics and prose, melody and recitation. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z

In Liselle, Solomon has invented a character who comes to the mind’s eye in HD, with anxieties, jokes, memories, furies and survival instincts all present in prose as clear as water. This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Add to this mix Kafka's meticulous, paranoid prose and you get one of the greatest bits of writing ever committed to paper. Ch-ch-changes 2010-07-29T11:27:00Z

His prose, in this translation by Anne McLean, is literate and dignified. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z

In a final aria — an oasis of expressive, elegant poetry from Smith, after so much expository prose — Patience dismisses the possibility of choosing either past or future. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vidal, you recently wrote in The New York Review of Books, “When it comes to matters of prose and of fiction at this time and in this place, I am authority.” Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But, she said, the “prose is spare and understated — so you get the high adventure of Dickens with the deft lightness of a late-20th-century author.” Jane Gardam on Her Books, Which Capture a Greater Britain 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Her lucid prose is precise and pointed, filled with telling details gathered from contemporary accounts and scholarly histories, old guidebooks and recent interviews. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

This novel by a prizewinning Portuguese journalist intertwines the political and the personal through its incantatory prose. Family Sagas: Three Novels Probe Generations of Secrets 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The editors have included poetry, prose, photographs and paintings created in recognition of both Brooks and her work. Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

All I can recall is that aged 20 I was already finding conventional English prose fiction quite as constricting as I did conventional English society. Will Self: modernism and me 2012-08-03T21:55:10Z

This made her lively copy; none of it shored the ruins of her prose. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z

Goldberg’s book could have stuck to descriptions of her own cases, without folding in those already reported elsewhere, and Freitas’s would benefit from tightened prose. Fighting Harassers and Stalkers on the Web, in Court and in Print 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Andrew McCarthy praised Harris’s “elegant, sensitive prose” here, writing that she “shares her passion with infectious enthusiasm.” New in Paperback: ‘Invisible’ and ‘Little Faith.’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The prose here, at least in Jonathan Wright’s translation from the Arabic, is fine but not world-beating. Books of The Times: ‘The Corpse Exhibition,’ Stories About a War-Torn Life 2014-01-28T22:29:14Z

If there are any wisps of nostalgia still clinging to antebellum life, any presumptions of honor still adhering to the Old South, they are burned away by the torch of Jeffers’s prose. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Kenner's prose style itself brings to mind sections of The Waste Land. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z

Ms. Mayer published more than 30 books of poetry and prose and was awarded a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship, among other honors. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

He reads the work of Pound’s visitors and those works of poetry, translation and prose that Pound created during his confinement. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Or should we all be aiming to craft impenetrably postmodern prose no one wants to read? Rude awakenings: Elizabeth Day 2011-04-02T23:07:50Z

He compared one veteran ambassador’s prose to Evelyn Waugh’s, and deemed other analyses “astute,” “unsentimental” and “hilarious.” In His First Book, Ronan Farrow Laments the Decline of Diplomacy 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

And that they would be writers and readers of the most diverse kinds – poets and prose writers, all ages, all levels of brow, from low to high. Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z

I certainly do believe that you can show would-be writers examples of good prose, as an inspiration. A lesson in teaching writing 2011-02-21T12:30:53Z

No outline of its narrative would really make you want to read it: it is Petterson's direct, unvarnished prose, his cadence and turn of phrase that count. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

Francis Bickmore, Canongate's senior editor, described it as a "really significant discovery" from a master of prose, who was also the most eloquent and acclaimed opponent of totalitarianism of the 20th century. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z

The salty sea-dog prose is informed by his study of 19th-century dialect, and the plot has elements of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, with perhaps a dash of HP Lovecraft. The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers on storms, seagulls and spraying Robert Pattinson with a hose 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

Welty’s prose undeniably sings, but in the otherworldly voice of a dark, Jungian dream. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

The story is brilliantly revealed through many overlapping accounts, tales told from different points of view in the Southern tradition like stories on the porch but all washed in the same, high-coloured prose. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

While Mifti's precociousness does not initially endear her to the reader, the way she conveys the tragedy of an abused child with adult incisiveness and quick-witted prose gradually draws one in. Helene Hegemann: 'There's no such thing as originality, just authenticity' 2012-06-23T23:05:24Z

He was one of the most visible representatives of the so-called "village prose" literary movement, which praised the old Russian customs and opposed urbanization. Russian writer Vasily Belov dies at 80 2012-12-05T17:11:08Z

As always, Lent traces their progress with poignancy and tenderness in some of the most magnificent prose being written today. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘A Slant of Light’ chronicles a Civil War veteran’s return 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Spook reads like a literary journal, eclectic with beautiful prose, brilliantly cross-secting the diversity of American intellectual life. Age of Aquemini: “Spook” magazine, Afrofuturism, and confronting publishing’s white problem 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

One of the most unaffected and transparent of contemporary actresses, Ms. Linney is the perfect conduit for Ms. Strout’s lucid, direct prose. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

He produced quantities of hack prose, but nothing as enduring as the “Confessions.” A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Then, like now, I found parts of Lovecraft’s work bewildering, so layered in florid prose that I would return to Poe as if to a lifeboat, thankful for his solidity. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

When Charles and Margaret finally meet again, and then still again, Mackenzie’s prose grows lyrical, dithyrambic. ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie

So was she: an anti-academic, chattily entertaining prose that read as both hard-bitten and strangely needy. ‘What She Said’ Review: Pauline Kael, Screen Queen 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

This is a film that tramples on Fitzgerald's exquisite prose, turning the oblique into the crude, the suggestively symbolic into the declaratively monumental, the abstract into the flatly real. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z

Though mannered and elliptical throughout, it’s more readable than those qualities usually herald, and in the end there’s something hypnotic about its stately, confessional prose. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

People who read Russian like to say that Dostoyevsky isn’t actually a good prose writer, but I can’t possibly imagine that to be true. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The prose is no longer a formal disquisition of the self but becomes a forceful assertion of control: a chef in her own kitchen, a woman who knows how to find the answers. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

While Roosevelt had provided a fresh scenario, Oursler’s writers tackled it in the same purple prose. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

I read it first as a piece of prose and thought it was compulsive. Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes poetry prize for 'spoken story' 2013-03-27T19:43:46Z

The Sagas are prose narratives — in many ways not so distant relatives of the modern novel — written mostly in the 13th and 14th centuries, about the goings-on among the settlers of Iceland four centuries prior. Read Your Way Through Reykjavík 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

It certainly sounds horribly vague when turned into prose. Lourdes: realistic about religion 2010-04-07T11:00:00Z

It’s written in a blend of poetry and prose, a hybrid that Evaristo calls “fusion fiction.” Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo Share Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Studying their clothes is a chance to discover whose understated ensemble matches their minimalist prose, or who dressed-down on the daily, saving their flair for the page. 'Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore' is a sartorial take on the elements of style 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

As a result, an element of defensiveness occasionally creeps into Greenberg’s prose, particularly regarding her many speculations or frequent use of “may have.” The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Politkovskaya — she was the mother of two, dead at 48 — wrote sentences that fit her subject: her prose was mostly hard and balefully direct, wormy with unpleasant truths. Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z

The prose is informative if not always digestible, and the images are largely well chosen. The Architect's Home by Peter Gossel – review 2013-04-21T08:00:04Z

He pioneered multiple prose forms in English, among them the satire, the dystopia, the Theophrastian character sketch, and the Neostoical meditation. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

There are moments in this book when the prose has a slight sepia tint. Riding Shotgun on Martha Gellhorn’s Brave and Comic Adventures 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Fortunately for readers, Keefe’s skills as a raconteur translate into diabolically seductive prose. Sunday Reading: The World of Patrick Radden Keefe 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

The book, “The Long Take,” by the poet Robin Robertson, mixes verse, prose and photographs to follow the story of a World War II veteran across the United States in the golden era of Hollywood. Man Booker Prize Shortlist Reflects Dark Times 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

As an inveterate lifter of good stuff from contemporary prose, I wonder if this was more than unconscious borrowing? Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z

Brown typically compensates for clunky prose with his ability to generate a sense that the distant past is fuller, wilder, and more complicated than we knew. “Inferno,” a Movie Even Tom Hanks Couldn’t Save 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

We even get to hear some of the hilariously bad prose. Review | What would happen if Hamlet was a girl in the Internet age? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Characteristically, Williams's prose is much less self-consciously "poetic", much more idiomatic, than that of his predecessors. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

The badness tends to be a different kind of badness — slow, earnest, lugubrious prose, or too-clever and self-conscious prose — but bad it nonetheless is. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

Only a few of Williams’s prose pieces come close to matching the transcendent force of his best plays. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z

His prose is burnished with an antique patina that evokes the mid-19th century. Review | Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

“Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt.” Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Waldman's prose is almost always pitch-perfect, whether describing a Bangladeshi woman's relationship with her landlady or the political manoeuvring within a jury. The Submission by Amy Waldman ? review 2011-08-24T13:30:02Z

His topic is masculinity under duress, and our critic Dwight Garner says his realistic prose delivers a sense of deep power held slightly in reserve. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Kipling, however, wasn’t content to conquer London with his prose alone. In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

In an essay about Joan Didion Roiphe analyzes the degree to which the rhythms and idioms that characterize Didion’s prose style have been borrowed, if not outright ripped off, by younger writers. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z

Otherwise, Moore's prose punches direct to the gut - so hard that, at its best, it will have you doubled over. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T09:00:00Z

At its weakest, though, Ford’s prose mopes with at-hand utterances: “part and parcel,” “pride and joy,” “this and that.” Richard Ford’s new memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

At 82, Mr. Merwin is an undisputed master, having written more than 30 books of poetry, translation and prose over the course of six decades. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z

In his prose, Yudkin is fastidiously precise and undemonstrative, as he was in person. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

We need nuanced characters, action and complex poetry and prose to tell our stories. Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Lanier is, to the very marrow of his bones, a Silicon Valley sage: his prose, despite its politely resistant stance, is a medley of TED talks and keynotes and takeaways. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Something, perhaps, like the subject of Elizabeth Bishop’s prose poem “Giant Toad” —“I am too big, too big by far. Pity me.” The Mysterious Relationship Between Pets and Their Owners 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Along these circuitous routes, his prose takes air, floating on the sheer joy of investigation and rumination. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The floor is purple; I’ll try to keep my prose from being the same. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Tucker’s debut is full of raw honesty and assured, beautiful prose. 10 books to read in June 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

In lyric lines and prose poems, Fraser distills quotidian details of marriage and parenthood into the stuff of rich observation. New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Beethoven to Armageddon 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

But I couldn’t help feeling that, despite Mr. Rapp’s own fine direction, “The Edge of Our Bodies” is more a slab of elegant prose being read from the stage than a dramatized work. Critic?s Notebook: Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries 2011-04-04T21:55:20Z

The book doesn’t distinguish itself from others in the genre — it’s an epic poem rendered in workmanlike prose — but the details are astonishing nonetheless. Suffering From Scrappy War Hero Fatigue? Get Over It 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

In straightforward prose, Mr. Spencer traces the long history of making wine within the eruption zone of an active volcano, and the industry’s modern incarnation as a source for gorgeous reds and savory whites. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

In his final book Rome, this critic whose prose is so majestic and rolling writes about some of his literary heroes. Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time 2012-08-07T12:06:48Z

For all its visceral force, her prose is literal, urgent, packed into the tight container of a single book about multiple sicknesses and disappointments and losses. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Yet when Smith tries to fill in the long life that preceded Eliot’s final months, the prose sags and reminds one too much of stale biographical exposition. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Although she writes in prose, Miller hews to the poetic timber of the epic, with a rich, imaginative style commensurate to the realm of immortal beings sparked with mortal sass. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Whether or not Lahiri chooses to write her future books in Italian, what matters is not linguistic provenance but the quality of the prose. ‘In Other Words’ review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s love letter to Italian 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

It helps that Springsteen can write — not just life-­imprinting song lyrics but good, solid prose that travels all the way to the right margin. Richard Ford Reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Compare the clause-heavy, abbreviated prose of David Foster Wallace’s many acolytes’ work. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Her prose calls to mind Simone Weil’s observation: “A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.” Review: ‘The Lonely City,’ a Personal Study of Urban Isolation 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

With his lyric evocations and expansive lists, Wolf seems to be wanting to write a prose equivalent of William Carlos William's Paterson. SOUND: A Novel by TM Wolf – review 2012-07-20T21:55:01Z

But those readers seeking a fuller, messier rendering of human existence might find themselves chafing at Mr. Maksik’s stylized and sanitized prose, which sometimes turns Jacqueline into an exoticized Cinderella, always grappling with extremes. Books of The Times: Alexander Maksik’s New Novel, ‘A Marker to Measure Drift’ 2013-08-22T19:58:56Z

Ricardo Cavolo had already published a version of the book in Spain and then Two Dollar Radio, your publisher, asked you to write the prose for the American release. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Theater Works, which records plays for radio, podcasts and online audio streaming, underline his prose’s punch. Call Charles Busch a ‘Drag Legend,’ if We Must Use Labels 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, however, Ekelund’s prose becomes didactic in urging readers to walk more, and he occasionally makes sweeping generalizations that don’t entirely ring true to fit a conclusion he’s already come to. Review | ‘In Praise of Paths’ reminds us of the incredible power of the simple outdoor walk 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

And then again, among the hilarity, these stories contain tiny, heart-breaking moments of raw feeling, expressed by the laureate of denial in the simplest prose. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

James also thought Stevenson a genius, Oscar Wilde found him “a delightful master of delicate and fanciful prose” and, in a case of like calling to like, G.K. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Is Holiday a gifted autodidact, as one could easily believe after absorbing the elegant, spare prose of “Conspiracy” and its seemingly timeless message about human nature? Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

White is a mesmerising narrator whose prose illuminates the most ordinary object and event in new and gripping ways. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z

The chapters move like the prose equivalent of flip-book images, quick and evocative. How a Boy in Rural Iceland Became a Tool for Global Fascism 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Weiner first encountered some of the poems in “Flight and Metamorphosis” when he was in Berlin in 2015 to write a prose book about the refugee situation there. Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Its origins date back to long before the printing press or even the bound codex, back to the emergence of prose in antiquity as both an expressive and an informational medium. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the beginning was the word: Fragments of prose by James Baldwin, jokes by Richard Pryor and, later, the testimony of a youth wrongly accused of a crime. How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

There's a quality of iridescence to the writing, particularly in these sections, which isn't just about the lustre of the prose, but the way in which passages seem many-coloured. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner – review 2013-06-05T15:01:59Z

The quality of the prose, the care in the pacing, the delight in storytelling, all made me reexamine why I read and write in this genre in the first place. Review | Michael J. Fox mixes candor, humor and hope in his heartfelt new memoir 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, many of the glimpses the reader gets are in the form of strange, somewhat awkward prose poems Blackburn calls “time songs.” Thousands of Years Ago, a Different Sort of Brexit 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The essay encourages an oddly suspicious, even paranoid reading of most free verse as phony poetry, as prose in costume. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

A true artist, he would nurture his prose in any season, rain or shine. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

And his writing never rises to fine prose. ‘Johnny Cash: The Life’: the true story of the Man in Black 2013-12-11T18:45:44Z

“The book is lifted by French’s nervy, almost obsessive prose,” Stephen King writes in his review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The ruminative essays, rendered in elegant but somewhat mannered prose, offer context and insight on her life and poetry, but their meanderings can sap the energy of the collection. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

He was so much more jolly and good-humored in person than his prose would suggest. Two Readings with Robert Stone 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Her prose is well put-together, like a woman who's aging gracefully. Review: `Fever Tree' is sweet, simple story 2013-04-10T12:52:09Z

What sets her apart, aside from her graceful prose and good humor, is the intimacy she offers. Her marriage was the jewel in her blog universe. Then she found out her husband was cheating. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

He loved the wire service copy of the old pros, “just fact after fact, with no analysis, presented in clean, spare prose under rat-a-tat pressure.” In ‘Reporter,’ Seymour Hersh Recounts Leaping Tall Deadlines in Single Bounds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

This is classic Dyer shtick, evidence of the manic mind that drives the discursive repetitions and restless circumlocutions in his prose investigations. Geoff Dyer is out of his depth in 'Another Great Day at Sea' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

In the context of a medium in which almost everything is displayed visually, these prose segments in the form of memories and dreams ignite the imagination and lend the overall experience a rare depth. | Nier: Nier, a Game for Role-Playing Fathers 2010-05-03T22:00:00Z

In opulent, slightly antique prose that suggests Smith’s parallel career as a poet, “Ginny Gall” portrays a region infected with the presumption of black depravity and violence. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The long sentence, the lower-case proper nouns, the low-level humour: Saramago's prose always sounds like the beginnings of a stand-up routine or a shaggy dog story. Cain by Jos? Saramago ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z

Loosely inspired by “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and written in a flawless approximation of 19th-century American prose, this tightly compressed novella manages to be both frightening and funny. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Rhodes then gets going with his own unambiguous prose. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-01-24T11:00:01Z

Scrutinize the prose, not the life, he scolds. Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Written from the hero’s rather than the heroine’s point of view, this 700-plus-page tome is a bad romance novel, driven by a preposterous, melodramatic plot and filled with some truly cringe-making prose. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z

There are more to come but you whizz through them without a thought thanks to the punch and pulse of Leonard's prose. Back from the Dead by Peter Leonard – review 2013-01-13T00:05:06Z

As a prose writer he’s pretty much the same, with extra mugging and contextualizing. Books of The Times: ?Fug You? by Ed Sanders - Review 2012-01-11T22:18:46Z

In prose of quiet beauty and measured restraint, Mirza traces those twined strands of yearning and sorrow that faith involves. Review | Sarah Jessica Parker thinks she knows what you should read. She’s right. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

McWilliamΩ used to be beautiful, heart-stoppingly and jaw-droppingly so, and this is, in part, a story of how she lost that beauty; but there is a vivid, dazzling beauty in her prose still. What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam - review 2011-08-18T09:00:01Z

Mr. Parker wrote the Spenser novels in the first person, employing the blunt, masculine prose style that is often described as Hemingwayesque. 2010-01-20T07:23:00Z

But as elliptical as his prose can sometimes be, Milch also has a way of using his characters’ convoluted talk to literalize the way they’re figuring themselves out. Dead Tree Alert: The Beautiful Losers of Luck 2012-01-27T17:38:48Z

There are a fair number of undramatised biographical passages, which make for bumpy reading, even if one takes a latitudinarian position about the role of information in novelistic prose. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z

But I sometimes find myself rereading works by great writers whose prose I envy. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Told in poised, often shimmering prose, these tales distress and confound. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Their citation describes “Less” as “a generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love.” Perspective | Finally, a comic novel gets a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

His essays, collected as “The Citizen of the World,” remain models of easygoing harmonious prose. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The most dazzling essays and fiction by the most virtuosic prose stylist of our time. Review | Forget trendy bestsellers: This best books list takes you off the beaten track 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Yes, but,” I say, for all its forceful and stylish prose, for Oyler’s signature denunciation of moral equivocation and imprecision in thought and language. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The novel is burdened by a heavy-handed use of emotive prose. Seeking Asylum but Finding Heartbreak 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Her prose is often funny and revealing, but most of all, it’s evidence that Parker possesses the soul of a poet. Mary-Louise Parker on the guys — good and bad — in her life 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Barker’s prose has a plain force more powerful than fancy wordsmithing; she makes these long-ago events immediate. Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Beard’s prose is never mandarin, yet she treats her readers like peers. Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Luhrmann’s main challenge was either to find a visual equivalent for Fitzgerald’s elegant prose — the open secret of the book’s staying power — or to bend the material to his own exotic strengths. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z

The Great Gatsbyby F Scott Fitzgerald Now, don't interpret this the wrong way: Fitzgerald's flowing, incandescent prose entranced me. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - review 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z

If his plotting is less berserk, his prose is as exacting as ever. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

According to Ekaterina, now 80, who lives in a Moscow flat filled with her father's books and his old armchair, Everything Flows includes her father's best prose. Vasily Grossman 2010-05-06T14:42:00Z

It has a beautiful prose style, and rich descriptions of the sensations they experienced. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Men who love rock music got really competitive trying to outdo each other with their lofty prose exalting the greatness of this seminal album. Against “Sgt. Pepper”: The Beatles classic made pop seem male, nerdy and “important” — and that wasn’t a good thing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

South African writer Bruce's economical prose, arrogantly deluded narrator and subject matter inevitably invite comparison with Coetzee, although the novel lacks the latter's casual brilliance. First novels roundup ? reviews 2011-08-26T21:07:01Z

Traveling south from France, the 19th-century author Henry James once called it “rather perhaps the last of the prose capitals than the first of the poetic.” New Venues Put Milan on the Contemporary Art Map 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

This is the breezy, excited prose of a romance novel, not the kind of language vested with the power of real research and contextual conclusivity. Two new Native American histories -- one tragic, one a revelation 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Weinman has written widely on crime fiction; in her own prose, cheesed-up cliffhangers abound: “The joke became truth before the summer of 1955 was over”; “the stuff of nightmares that would rip any mother apart.” The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

"Cricket and its terms lend themselves to that kind of Lewis Carroll, I Am the Walrus period of music – that kind of 19th-century prose that was around in the 1960s." The Duckworth Lewis Method: 'Cricket forces you to sit on your arse, which is healthy' 2013-06-22T23:05:08Z

Crisp prose and crackling dialogue evoke a bustling world full of violence, ideology and, in apt doses, dark humor. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Murray said Mantel's prose was poetic and beautiful. Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote 2013-01-29T20:33:00Z

The Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Student Contest will accept art in many forms, including a painting or sculpture, poetry, prose and film. Calling all kids: Three spring contests on land, sea and space 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Greenwell, whose 2016 “What Belongs to You” established a new bar for literary fiction with its sinuously elegant prose, returns with a set of stunning vignettes about a young gay man’s experiences in Sofia, Bulgaria. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Don’t think children’s books are any easier to write than adult prose, Jones stresses. Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

Its strongest entries, however, reflect the same subtleties of thought, laid down in his lapidary, crystalline prose. Review: ‘Discontent and Its Civilizations’: Mohsin Hamid at Home in Three Lands 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

What remains is urban disaffection writ large in prose both unedited and unedifying. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z

Some things, she said, music does better than prose. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

An informed and accessible prose stylist, Morgan liked to imagine his readers as "ignorant geniuses"; the public knew him best for "Benjamin Franklin," published in 2002, when Morgan was 86. Edmund S. Morgan, colonial scholar, dies at 97 2013-07-09T13:05:12Z

Literary critics likened his experimental prose to modernist masters like Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and William Faulkner, while others noted his debt to fellow South African writer J.M. Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The author of a previous book about the tourist trade on Mount Everest, Kodas has a knack for fluid prose and an eye for ghoulish detail. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Brutus, leader of the conspirators, steps onto the pulpit to explain their motives, in a rare burst of prose in a notably verse-heavy play. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z

But the volume is also an introspective self-portrait, set down in the same fluent, fleet-footed prose that made his 1995 book “Dreams From My Father” such a haunting family memoir. Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Her reflections are as much poetry as prose, and practically every sentence is a revelation. Review | What does it mean to be a ‘horse girl’? It’s more than a silly kid who wants a pony. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

In a statement Monday, Moore said he was “bursting with fiction, bursting with prose” and thanked his publisher for its commitment to “expanding the empire of the word.” Alan Moore working on short stories, 5-volume fantasy series 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

The acoustic quality of Woolf’s prose in “To the Lighthouse” reverberates, and therefore her sentences are not easy to drop or leave behind. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

When Vladimir Nabokov wrote in “Lolita” that “you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style,” he was not predicting the arrival of the serial killer and necrophile Ted Bundy. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z

Her prose becomes more sharply invested with the visual and material world. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

His hobbies paid off: the prose about rivers, music and archery is acute. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z

It is as though – batty as this sounds – it follows him about, the landscape and even the weather rising to meet the challenge of his prose. Robert Macfarlane: 'Paths are human; they are the traces of our relationships' 2012-05-26T23:05:33Z

At first glance, the table of contents might suggest a sweeping-up of bits, pieces and unrelated prose. ‘A Lowcountry Heart’: Pat Conroy’s final words 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Thank goodness I retained the ability to write prose. Interview: Poet Donald Hall 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

As Ondaatje’s titles have settled — recent ones include “Anil’s Ghost” and “Divisadero” — his prose has settled as well. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Bukowski wrote short stories that were prose poems, yet I read them as the vignettes of life that, to me, rate as full-blown short stories. Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

But many of us, only intermittently attentive, will discover, like Molière’s bourgeois gentleman, that we have been speaking “prose” all our lives — prose written in the language of this style. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z

The gentle poetry of Strauss’s invocation of spring was reduced to ungainly prose. Soprano Heidi Melton shows promise in Strauss’s ‘Four Last Songs’ program 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Stories explore everything from runaway daughters to infant loss and cancer, from beer runs to porcupine hunts, all of which take on vivid contours thanks to Talty’s fresh, irreverent prose. Beer Runs, Porcupine Hunts, Jars of Teeth and Much More 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

"I feel poetry is more the language of grief than prose." David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z

Through this fog of glib allusion and secondhand thinking, the wistful glimmer of Fitzgerald’s prose shines like the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z

Yet even without good prose or a thrilling plot, "Midnight Sun" manages to be a fun read, with a likable protagonist and a brisk, page-turning pace. 'Midnight Sun' is a softer, gentler Jo Nesbø - as far as that goes 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Or it would if Sorrentino's electric prose and mordant wit didn't tap into the secret desire we all have from time to time to shed our skin and start over. Christopher Sorrentino's 'The Fugitives' spins a story of deception and double-dealing 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

“Through the publication of her poems, prose, diaries, and now her collected letters,” Frieda Hughes writes, “my mother continues to exist.” Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The work combined verse, prose, lists, dreams, history and biography: Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

But it is the second half, presented as a sequence of extended soliloquies, in which Cartwright taps into the metaphorically rich, alliterative seam of prose poetry for which he's famous. A Christmas Fair – review 2012-12-17T18:04:11Z

There were hundreds of entries for that year's prose category, but I won first prize. How a little praise in prison can go a long way 2010-08-24T15:00:00Z

For now, I’m not necessarily interested in writing for show or exposure, as I am with prose writing. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z

His new book, “Distrust That Particular Flavor,” is his first collection of miscellaneous prose — essays, journalism, lectures — in a career of more than 30 years. Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z

Glancy uses poetry and prose to filter the Book of Job through the stories of Native Americans and other marginalized groups. New & Noteworthy Poetry, From ‘White Blood’ to the Book of Job 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

When poetry is read like prose instead of as verses, it becomes more intelligible. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z

It proves that even a recipe offers opportunities for beautiful prose, such as her description of short ribs barely submerged in a pho broth as “crocodiles in a swamp.” ‘Prune’ cookbook: Gabrielle Hamilton speaks directly to her line cooks

Not in the instructional, recipe-book sense – I am, alas, an indifferent cook – but in prose, because of the mix of sensuality and practicality it conveys; the straightforward beauty of it. Food writing, glorious food writing 2011-07-15T11:53:01Z

There’s an American ring to that — the Big Easy, easy listening, easy-peasy — while Duras, though her prose is spare and concentrated, is practically an avatar of French existential difficulty. From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

Bob goes about this business amid prose that at times resembles a news release from the Tinfoil Hat Enthusiasts of America. What exactly is Sean Penn’s role in the mysterious ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Broder’s preoccupations — and sometimes her prose — mirror her essays and poetry and tweets, but she has also allowed her social-media style and substance to blossom. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The long prose passages of “Springsteen on Broadway” — he relies on some strategically placed screens with the words of the script, an unfortunate, limiting crutch — are deeply emotional. Review | No doubt about it. Bruce Springsteen belongs on Broadway. 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

He deploys gorgeous prose to describe horrifying acts. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

In form and spirit they are closer to prose poems, sometimes even songs, built around repeating refrains. What Children Remember From the War 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, as with William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White’s “The Elements of Style,” the music of the prose is what recommends the volume long after many of its prescriptions have been discarded. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Bruce Wagner's published long-form oeuvre, a near-hysterical skewering of Hollywood in over-the-top, satirical prose, reads like a study of the banality of celebrity. Satirical rant against Hollywood goes over the top in 'I Met Someone' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The abilities to play the piano, to solve complex equations, and to write prose are also unlikely to have functions with respect to survival and reproduction, but there is nothing unreal or frivolous about them. What is the female orgasm for? Science, gender bias, and the “upsuck” theory that won’t go away 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

His prose is uninteresting on a micro level, and is frequently acute in its awkwardness. Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z

Still, the conversational prose would have benefited from being pruned of cliches. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Abi Daré’s debut novel, “The Girl With the Louding Voice,” is told in a prose style that will sound unfamiliar to many readers, particularly Western ones. In Rural Nigeria, a Heroine Who Wants to Be Defined by More Than Marriage 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

But the scholastic throat-clearing quickly gives way to a bravura performance of storytelling, in an elegant prose style throughout that does not sacrifice intelligence for readability. Colin Dickey explores American's haunted mansions in 'Ghostland' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

It may not be easy to define a good prose poem, but it's easy enough to spot a bad one when you read it. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

In smart, terse prose, Adjei-Brenyah is unflinching, and willing, in most of these 12 stories, to leave us without any apparent hope. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

But I do not locate my value as a person on what my books do, or how good my poems or prose are. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Sinclair's dense webs of prose, history and autobiography are researched via epic walks, even runs, around his home borough of Hackney and London's "edgelands". Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z

Mr. Allen’s prose made an even stronger impression on me than his films. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

In a telegram, Mr. Lowell offered a prose poem about Lt. New York Public Library Acquires Archive of The New York Review of Books 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

This is a very early attempt at prose by Andersen, who was then 18.'' ArtsBeat: Like a Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen Story Is Found in a Box 2012-12-13T19:25:58Z

The prose is hackier and more clichéd than it used to be. Books of The Times: ?Holidays in Heck,? by P. J. O?Rourke - Review 2011-11-29T23:13:18Z

In her clear, concise prose, Chung makes the personal political, tackling everything from America’s crushingly unjust health care system to the country’s gauzy assumptions about adoption, a practice that is itself rooted in economic inequality. A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

His prose about other topics is usually as good. Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z

O'Brien, in her 80s, may look like an icon and talk like an icon, but she writes like the thing itself, with prose that is scrupulous and lyrical, beautiful and exact. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

The photographs accompanying the text are dim and blotchy, and Raffles favors slabs of prose unbroken by punctuation. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

More than a dozen people of the Asian diaspora will tell their stories, personal and political, through prose, music and other creative media. Things to Do in NYC: Astoria for a Pool Day, and Open-Mic Night Plus Dumplings in Chinatown 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

But he says he doesn’t plan on swapping his trademark emotional prose for something “cooler” anytime soon. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” was marked by Handler’s winkingly ornate prose and neo-gothic whimsy; “All the Dirty Parts” is spare, stripped down and devoid of anything twee. Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

One might expect a poet’s prose to be florid, or at least highly metaphorical. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

However inapt as drama, and however much real estate they steal from the development of a richer plot, such songs serve an important function, like the witty prose of the novel. ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Ultimately it was asking a lot for Frost to live up to the kinetic rhythm and glorious licence of the prose, let alone a quarter century of anticipation. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Later historians praise her prose but have discounted her emphasis that the war was inevitable because of entangling alliances and the rigid requirements of railway schedules for mass mobilization. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

The prose style in both is a delight: elegant, clean, crisp and dry, like a good Italian white. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

There’s a riffing playfulness to her prose as it turns back on itself to interrupt, comment or elaborate. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

"Movies, video games, the prose novels and obviously the comic books are intertwined and to the point where I think ... you're trying to create a brand," Waltz, who wrote the upcoming game, told the AP. Ghostbusters lives on through comics, video games 2011-03-15T12:16:04Z

A friend had submitted Murphy's prose writing to a TV executive who was looking for someone who understood New York. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z

Her prose skitters along with her own insecurities, becoming thin and abstract rather than rich with the details of her engagement in the gritty work she clearly loves. In France, an American Woman Learns the Butcher’s Trade 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Reading Chokshi’s prose is like sinking deeply into the overstuffed arms of a plush, purple velvet sofa. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

His prose is brisk and well-paced, with many surprising insights along the way. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Rather, it's the crispness, humour and beauty of the prose that make this book worth seeking out.  Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

Don't scatter them carelessly, while congratulating yourself on the vibrancy of your prose. Jo Marchant on science writing: 'You need a burning curiosity' 2013-03-13T07:00:01Z

The title of Da Corte’s show adds an apostrophe to Arthur Rimbaud’s “A Season in Hell,” a Symbolist prose poem written in the midst of his tumultuous, volatile relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine. Alex Da Corte set Pop aflame at Art + Practice 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Could it be that prose is dull if it loses its bite? The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Flanagan’s prose becomes languidly reliant on the verb “feel” and all its conjugations. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

This is a striking observation, especially from Jin, whose controlled prose usually avoids speculation. Ha Jin’s Self-Revealing Study of The Chinese Poet Li Bai 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Spread the warmth … post your prose about the fiery orb here. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z

The study also assumes that if Dickens is a 'genius', every line of his prose should be 'genius'. Can you spot a Charles Dickens sentence? 2013-03-25T15:04:14Z

Writing in vigorous, pictorial prose, Mr. Hughes expertly conjures the triumphal, over-the-top, Hollywood-like pageantry that Roman leaders excelled at. Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z

The problem, in part, is with Mr. Bradford’s prose. Books of The Times: ‘Martin Amis: The Biography,’ by Richard Bradford 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z

Ms. Ruhl, whose works include “Eurydice” and “The Clean House,” is celebrated for capitalizing on such ambiguity and for blurring boundaries between myth and reality, poetry and prose and even animal and human. Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Indeed, many of the reviews of Freedom were written in the breathless prose of an artful press release. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z

But the bareness of the stage suits Coetzee's prose and gives just enough unreality to his characters to permit them to engage in inscrutably simple philosophical arguments. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z

It's a more direct experience even than the author's purposeful prose. The future is digital 2010-12-18T00:07:32Z

Not long ago I reread “The Great Gatsby,” and was impressed again by the beauty of the prose and the distinctiveness of the style. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Drawing on both childhood memories and his experiences after returning to his homeland in 2003, the book describes the troubled life of Kashmir in lucid, detailed prose. Basharat Peer: Curfewed Night 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Not so you fall under an influence, but just enough to be reminded about the magic potential of original prose. A lesson in teaching writing 2011-02-21T12:30:53Z

In some ways, the novel reads like a prose poem, filled with battles, passions, loyalties and betrayal, but it’s a page-turner of a poem. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

In “Unconstitutional,” he proves he’s just as comfortable in long form, translating the dense prose of our founding documents into barroom metaphors. Theater Review: Colin Quinn in ‘Unconstitutional,’ at the Barrow Street Theater 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z

“If it has energy,” he writes, “fictional prose will tend to be headstrong.” In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

A boy whose parents rob a bank in Montana in 1960 takes refuge across the border in this mesmerizing novel, driven by fully realized characters and an accomplished prose style. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Having been fascinated by Artaud for more than a decade, she hi-jacked his prose and made it a vehicle for her own pain and anger. Nancy Spero: no pity 2011-02-26T00:07:34Z

Wallace-Wells avoids the “eerily banal language of climatology” in favor of lush, rolling prose. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

If she’s on downers, the prose in “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” is mostly on uppers. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

But Marcus is a great prose stylist, fun to read even when he's spinning his wheels, and often — there's no telling when — he will pick up speed and zoom off into unexpected territories. Into the ether with Greil Marcus' ' History of Rock 'n' Roll' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

This final collection is made up of headlong prose poems that amount to sly — and heartbreaking — metaphysical parables about mortality. New & Noteworthy Poetry From James Tate, Jana Prikryl and More 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Lacy never forgot his roots in Depression-era Texas, and in his prose he projects a person who is a realist and averse to fulsomeness, the princess tree notwithstanding. From the horticultural greats, garden guidance for all of us 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

It’s where he experimented in delinquency, learned to cast a fly rod, stepped unmoored into the wilderness and first tinkered with a prose style that would one day make him famous. When Hemingway Was a Young Fisherman in Michigan 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

D’Erasmo’s prose is often as beautiful as a sad song, and “Wonderland” is as much about second chances as it is about life as an artist. A reading list for your Memorial Day weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Annie, like the other characters, also moves effortlessly from sinewy prose into sung verse in a way that makes words dance. Remember Arden 2012-11-26T16:22:18Z

Begin “The Paying Guests” and you’ll immediately surrender to the smooth assuredness of Sarah Waters’s silken prose. The ten best books of 2014

But why not connect the prose of existence to its deep, strange, cosmic implications? Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

He compares the experience of being bewildered when working out a mathematical problem to reading some prose or poetry he doesn’t quite understand. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

I have read Foyt's book, and aside from the astonishingly bad prose, the thing that leaps out at you is the absence of self-awareness or acknowledgement of privilege. Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends 2012-08-27T13:00:01Z

“The Red Parts” is an experiment with long form narrative-ish prose. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

It was about five years ago, but the book really stuck in my mind: the brutal murder of a young soldier; the sparseness of the prose; the violent, vivid heat. Llosa: a worthy Nobel winner? 2010-10-07T11:39:00Z

She somehow extracts a meticulous accuracy of expression and high level of thought from an invitingly casual tone and unfussy prose in a way that seems effortless, even inevitable. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

“The world is changing so unpredictably that classical realistic prose isn’t able to catch up to it,” he said. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

Marina Tsvetaeva was the first; other poets and prose writers are now also receiving belated recognition. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Gurnah’s first language is Swahili, but he adopted English as his literary language, with his prose often inflected with traces of Swahili, Arabic and German. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Macfarlane is one of our most physical writers, and the greatest pleasure of his prose is his ability to capture the spirit of a place. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z

It's the prelude to a collection that is actually bold and rangy, celebrating the writer's return, after his "infidelity" with prose fiction, to his long and fruitful marriage with poetry. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z

It was an intense experience for Mr. Neumann, whose father both interpreted Beckett’s prose for the stage and visited him annually. Dance: David Neumann?s All-American Meal 2010-02-26T15:44:00Z

While St. Aubyn is an elegant and at times even superlative prose stylist, his 21st century verbiage cannot live up to his predecessor’s. Edward St. Aubyn sets aside autobiographical fiction in 'Dunbar' and updates Shakespeare's 'King Lear' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

In 650 pages of dense but unfailingly readable prose, Hastings surveys not merely the war in Europe — to which Western historians invariably are drawn — but that in Asia as well. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books

Felix says, "Dad was full of ideas. I mean, ideas used to fall out him like water over a waterfall. He would write them, and my mother would polish the prose, as it were." Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

Written in the late 1980s, in terse staccato prose, that list is the skeleton key to the rest of her work. A New Story Collection and a Memoir by Lucia Berlin, Patron Saint of Soulful Cool 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

I thought about the college friend who improvised dizzying jazz piano compositions, spun heady, wild prose and tumbled into addiction sometime after we graduated. Matthew Perry's death reminds us what we need to be doing right now 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Baldwin came of age as a novelist during the days of “From Here to Eternity” and “The Naked and the Dead”—an epoch defined by “muscular prose” and stories steeped in realism. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

When Alethea takes over the narrative, she describes the rise and fall of her failed marriage in brisk, evocative prose, slicing through sentiment and getting down to practicalities. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Her prose was bold for the 1960s; it’s bold today. Review: ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

She said she wanted to "replicate the experience" of London through its often discontinuous and stylistically diverse prose. Zadie Smith returns to her native London for her fourth novel 2012-08-26T15:13:10Z

Besides producing a dozen volumes of poetry, Ms. Clifton wrote many well-received books of prose and verse for children that centered on the African-American experience. 2010-02-17T05:56:00Z

Prolonged exposure to academic prose drove Professor Dutton to create the Bad Writing Contest, which he ran, under the aegis of Philosophy and Literature, for several years in the 1990s. Denis Dutton, Philosopher, Dies at 66 2011-01-01T03:57:45Z

While spellbound by Brett’s clean prose and obvious intellect, I finished the book wondering if the follow-through was as masterful as the setup. What if You Could Live in All Your Parallel Universes at Once? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

They set the standard for classic cozy puzzles, and “Heirs of the Body’s” unfussy prose and straightforward plot lend themselves well to this venerable tradition. ‘Heirs of the Body’: Daisy Dalrymple back on the case 2013-12-12T20:53:22Z

“In my opinion, the quality of the prose is just as important in nonfiction as in fiction.” Robert Caro’s Papers Headed to New-York Historical Society 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

But he was not precious about his prose and, providing the page proofs read well, we did our job while he did his. Iain Blair obituary 2011-08-15T17:34:06Z

Woolf's way of writing about people and their feelings was so overwhelming, and her prose so highly wrought, that the novel's setting somehow escaped me. Summer reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2011-08-10T10:35:43Z

The subject is a violent and abusive family, the prose remains uncompromisingly direct, and the principal action takes place in a cabin in the woods. Dirt by David Vann - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z

Brideshead Revisited can be seen as lush and over-indulgent in its prose, but its narrative certainly benefits from the urgent circumstances of its composition. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z

They arrest him, but just as Braggs is about to be executed he escapes, precipitating a series of entirely predictable chases and showdowns which Parker's no-frills prose somehow makes compelling. John O'Connell's choice of thrillers | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

There is a wondrous fluidity to his prose. In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics and pellucid memoir; straightforward narration and constellated word games. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Kerouac published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, most famously "On the Road." Mass. city to hold expanded Jack Kerouac festival 2010-09-27T22:44:00Z

Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The Good Man Jesus is a fascinating story, told in the same kind of spare, lapidary prose as the Gospels themselves or a Grimm brothers fairytale. The Gospels, according to Philip Pullman 2010-03-29T15:14:00Z

Nevertheless, a new generation is declaring itself with increasing confidence in poetry, prose and plays. Introducing Russia's Debut generation 2011-04-11T17:15:18Z

I raced through the book, marveling at its precise, restrained prose and grasping paranoiacally at small details that might indicate what was real and what wasn’t. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

She was transfixed by the unusual story and vivid, chiseled prose, and attempted to translate it herself, but wasn’t fluent enough yet to capture Ms. Han’s style. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The scholar Leonard Diepeveen aptly describes this feature of Eliot’s critical prose: “Though he regularly asserts the need for evidence, Eliot doesn’t often provide it.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

The liveliness and restraint of the prose, along with Mr. Trillin’s characteristic wryness, suggest deep if narrow rivers of feeling; the reader may cross and cry without fear of drowning. Review: ‘About Alice’ Brings a Husband’s Eulogy to Life 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

The grimy neighborhood — part of a vast complex of original sets — reproduces physically what Ferrante’s prose communicated, the claustrophobia of the setting and the relationships. Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

If you were using this font, you could type whatever you liked, and it would come out as a weird, erotic prose poem. Art In Review: ‘CARNAL KNOWLEDGE’: ‘Sex + Philosophy’ 2012-05-31T21:29:07Z

"Poetry is not often a stepping stone to the novel, but we very much admired his perfumed prose from the drug dens and back streets of India's most concentrated conurbation." Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z

Gore and sex aside, the author’s pen produces reams of fluent, sometimes sparkling prose. Long they ruled 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But through the wizardry of Lerner’s prose, this battle of adolescent elocution becomes an emblem for the fiery state of American culture. Review | Ben Lerner’s brilliant new novel, ‘The Topeka School,’ captures America’s brutal divisions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Despite the gaudy nature of its prose – "he's my very own Christian Grey-flavoured popsicle" and "my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves" are oft-quoted examples – the book has proven hugely popular. Could Bret Easton Ellis bring Fifty Shades of Grey to fruition? 2012-06-12T13:16:00Z

Galera is the author of several gritty novels set in contemporary Brazil and one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian novelists; he writes with a heady, voracious energy captured in robust prose by Sanches. Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

What the Czechoslovak censors found threatening about Hrabal’s prose was not its content but its form. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Told in florid, exuberantly vulgar Rabelaisian prose, that novel, published in 1976, purported to be Falstaff’s memoirs, dictated in his ninth decade to a series of household secretaries. Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The prose is lyrical – if a little over-baked in places – and the inner life of Diony is rendered with a Woolf-like intensity, raising the novel high above the clichés of its genre. The Great Meadow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts – review 2012-11-27T14:08:30Z

“Mann would undoubtedly be far happier with his new translator, John E. Woods, who succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of his ironically elegant prose,” Mr. Harman wrote. John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The poetry seems to rise effortlessly from the delicacy and thoughtfulness of Borges’s prose. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

A passage from Robert Graves’s 1929 “Good-Bye to All That”—while good as prose—tells more than shows us his psychic state after World War I: I was still mentally and nervously organized for war. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

He’s a fine writer of prose, with an instinctive feel for storytelling and a genius for quotation. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

They inspire rapturous reviews filled with flowery prose about nuance and subtlety, the exquisite artistry of the acting craft, et cetera. Is Kristen Stewart too good for big-budget blockbusters? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

I am more conscious of Griffin’s occasional lapses into clumsy prose and his inclination to mount a soapbox . . . but the story itself remains powerful, revealing and moving.” Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sayrafiezadeh’s prose is confident and polished, but the incidents and epiphanies in these stories carry a whiff of the writer’s workshop. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z

That sort of paradox is central to Didion’s work: She takes a ruin and in prose makes it whole and beautiful. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Jaime and Maya — who share their perspectives in comic panels and in prose — learn more about what they value in friends as they navigate this middle-school drama. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Million Dollar Race’ by Matthew Ross Smith 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

There was something so soothing about the motion of the ship, the tranquility of the lounge, and the straightforward, simple, witty prose of Greene. This Week in Fiction: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

This is a book for those who mourn the changing climate and coast as well as, perhaps, America’s diminishing literary culture; sadness benefits from lyrical prose. Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Their exploits were passed down orally and given literary form only as prose narratives in the 13th and 14th centuries. Review | The dauntless machismo of the Vikings 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Stylistically, he adapted his prose to his characters with all the joie de vivre of a Faulkner. The scary delights of Richard Matheson 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

He clearly has talked to everyone he could get ahold of, and as lucid and lively as his own prose is, he's often upstaged by interviewees who are born raconteurs. 'Before Seattle Rocked': music history as social history 2011-10-27T20:10:05Z

Her prose is sharp and true and deeply funny. ‘Sleepwalker’s Guide’ is a beautiful family saga 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Peake's extraordinary writing, it felt to me then, was all about a solitary, personal flight of imagination where the reader makes the pictures to match the soaring, peculiar prose. Radio head: Classic Serial ? The History of Titus Groan 2011-08-16T20:30:03Z

On a line-by-line basis Priest's prose is sometimes awkward, with repetitive constructions and a few ill-chosen words. 'Dreadnought': Cherie Priest's steampunk saga of a Civil War nurse and a big bad train 2010-10-01T22:00:00Z

“Citizen,” by Claudia Rankine. Part documentary, part lyric procedural: a jarring and beautiful book of poems, images, and prose meditations about everyday racism. Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

What matters more is Luhrmann’s eye for beauty, filling the screen with pictures nearly as lovely as Fitzgerald’s prose. Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’ does justice to a great book 2013-05-08T21:27:20Z

Across his oeuvre, Coates’ prose style and literary prowess are hip-hop sharpened: he believes in the art of dexterous reference, potent, lyrical critique and political storytelling. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the sunlight of her prose, everybody looks pink and vulnerable. ‘The Nakeds’: A young, broken girl and her nudist family 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

I can't imagine feeling any urgency to write in such surroundings, I reckon my prose would be flabby and my dialogue dreary. Phil Earle: Where I write 2013-04-24T09:00:00Z

If I were giving advice to a prose writer, I would offer tips like, your writing will leap off the page if you use active voice, or show, don’t tell. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z

The prose is clean and crisp and never hyperbolic. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

I wouldn’t put a beautiful piece of descriptive prose in a film script. Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z

His ability to spin out a dark, glittering thread from this tangle of souls gave him a singular voice that could make his prose riveting. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z

Ms. McBride, the author of “A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing,” said she was struck by “the alignment of extraordinarily lyrical prose with incredibly brutal content.” ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

In her writing, Gladman often dramatizes thinking by weaving doubt or awareness of the body into her sentences so as to push her prose into revelatory and unexpected places. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in March 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The lesser activity of writing prose journals, in a phonetic Japanese alphabet, was left to aristocratic women like Lady Murasaki. Review | ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Japan’s most revered book, and likely the first novel ever. This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The poems are interspersed with short prose passages about Native American displacement and her family. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Too often, though, her prose is watery — so thin that, as Woody Guthrie sang about Depression-era stew, you can read a magazine right through it. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z

Authors often weave immigrant narratives into tapestries of symbolic prose, metaphors for long lost homes and the strangeness of new cultures. Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

But Noyes’s prose is admirably restrained, and the real drama remains that of character, the mystery we are to ourselves. ‘Goodnight, Beautiful Women’ — lucid, sensual stories 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an ingenious blend of desolation and a strange kind of hope, told in rich prose with more than a trace of myth and magical realism thrown in. Eerie visitor, string of murders haunt B.C. logging town 2014-02-19T20:14:55Z

Finally, in case I haven't convinced you, how about these three quick examples of Mitchell's delicious prose: 1. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z

With appropriately flashy prose, he dismantles some misconceptions and credits some nearly forgotten but key figures. Behind the Guitar Heroes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The resulting anthology, animated by stylish prose, brings these cases to life. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

But your prose style — the present tense, second person, the omniscience blended into the almost hypnotic refrain first occurring in the title:  ”This Is the Water” — is artfully perfect for the plot that unfolds.  “Of course I’m not a prostitute”: Laura Kasischke and Yannick Murphy on first-person, genre fiction and parenthood 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

No. About the best you can say for her prose is that it is accurate. Strictly Ann: The Autobiography by Ann Widdecombe – review 2013-06-10T07:00:58Z

Weiss’s book, whose careful organization and articulate prose belie its hurried composition in the wake of last October’s Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, is not just about the left. The Persistence of the Oldest Hatred 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

You start to create this wooden, dead prose that nobody wants to read. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

Discouraged by the difficulty of the French master’s prose and the extravagance of his style, Czapski abandoned an attempt to read “Remembrance of Things Past.” Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The photographs, both merciless and compassionate, work wonderfully with Mann's prose. Sally Mann's memoir 'Hold Still' as lyrical as her photos 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

I missed most of France, my nose buried in the paperback – captivated, as all 21-year-olds should be, by Kerouac's bebop prose, his freedom and spontaneity. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z

As well as Proust, he translated Luigi Pirandello, an Italian writer, despite claiming unfamiliarity with Italian, and Stendhal, a Frenchman whose short sentences were a relief after Proust’s sprawling prose. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

But Jones the poet is not just a cultural commentator: The features that distinguish his poems from prose — brevity, symbolism, implication — let him investigate the almost unsayable. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

But he also frequently experimented with prose, and liked pushing genre boundaries, mixing autobiography with fiction. A Final Work by Sam Shepard Reveals His Struggle With Lou Gehrig’s Disease 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Despite the brilliance of her imagination and the gorgeousness of her prose, none of Carter’s books was ever shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The reason to see this show is for a certain distinctive spark in the prose that reminds you that this is an early work by Stephen Adly Guirgis. | 'Den of Thieves': Imperfect Crime, Indelicate Outcome 2010-08-25T22:08:00Z

The full sweep of their practices is flawlessly embedded in See’s prose. Lisa See’s new novel draws readers along a fantastic tea-infused trail 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

That’s an apt metaphor for Wascom’s prose, too: “Lurking there are other figures, shades dancing across its surface like that of moonlit water, the doorway to a drowned world.” ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Sinclair’s discursive, intensely literate prose knits together time and place, drawing parallels between stolen Indigenous land and the Highland Clearances that left his own Scottish forebears dispossessed. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Each page is a gem, its prose carefully weighed and polished. Another Yalta conference 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

At 19 he moved to Chile where, at age 21, he published “Azul,” a collection of poems and prose that came to define the Spanish Modernist movement and catapulted him into literary stardom. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Instead, a single idea of lost childhood freedom is dressed up in various shades of orgasmically purple prose and applied to various cultures and reiterated throughout the book. Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-28T08:00:18Z

“The Tie That Binds” won a $25,000 Whiting Writers’ Award and drew critical acclaim for its sharply observed prose. Kent Haruf, acclaimed novelist who chronicled small-town intrigue, dies at 71

The prose he produced has influenced generations of writers. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

As translated by Victoria Cribb, Indridason’s austere, clear-cut prose coldly reveals “all the disruption the military occupation had brought to this sparsely populated island and its simple society.” Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

I like to be polite And this is true: your books are a delight,In prose, free verse and letters you excel.You want my help with getting rhyme-schemes right. A Villanelle for Hugo Williams 2011-03-12T00:06:51Z

In these pages, Jan Stuart praised Adam’s “fluid and uncluttered prose” that “weaves an enveloping portrait.” New in Paperback: ‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Lost Children Archive’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Farah is a deeply sophisticated writer, his prose almost aromatic, like rich, sweet Somali tea. A Novel of Culture Clash Grapples With the Grief of a Suicide Bomber’s Family 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

In looking back at his own earlier work, Mr. Updike says he fears that his prose has lost “its carefree bounce, its snap, its exuberant air of slight excess.” Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z

“If Wagner had only written his 3,000 pages of prose, he would be remembered as a kook, a second-rate maniacal thinker,” Steinberg said. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Some are historical records, others are laws, poems, prose, and prophecy—written over hundreds of years and in various cultures and languages. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

In measured, data-driven prose, Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not economically, not militarily and not technologically. What Is America’s Role in the World? Three Authors Offer Very Different Views 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Written in lean, graceful prose that offers ample evidence of her talent, the book is as much a window into the mythologized publication as it is a chronicle of one woman’s self-discovery. Janet Groth Describes Her Life at The New Yorker 2012-06-27T22:01:52Z

In unadorned, unflinching prose, it narrated her life from her early childhood through her involvement in the civil rights movement as a young woman. Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

I just finished reading “Things in Jars” by Jess Kidd, which I adored — it dragged me back to 1863 London and environs, and kept me rooted there, entwined in vines of lush prose. 11 popular authors discuss the books that are helping them cope 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

A few of these Tennessee passages are nearly as lovely as anything in James Agee’s prose poem “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.” Books of The Times: ?The Last Holiday: A Memoir? by Gil Scott-Heron - Review 2012-01-09T23:31:50Z

Set in her native Trinidad, it is an exploration of a marriage and a country breaking down in parallel – and despite the sensuous prose, politically it cuts no slack. Archipelago by Monique Roffey - review 2012-07-27T21:54:00Z

The prose may be a bit wooden, but the sentiment is worth noting. Critic?s Notebook: Surveying an Unvarnished America 2011-03-28T22:52:41Z

How much do you work on your prose style? Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview 2013-01-26T21:00:01Z

González, an award-winning poet and author of a dozen books of prose and poetry, is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark and one of the L.A.Times’ critics at large. Rigoberto González on being in the bittersweet club of professionals of color 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

With gorgeous prose and granular inspection, Kennicott has created a subtle and profound portrait of love, loss and the human condition. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The novel is also written in brilliant prose. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Her ambitions sharpened as her ear tuned to Beckett’s Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, his tortured but exact syntax, the sonic perfection of his prose as it sought the comic depths of human suffering. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Copyright issues can be circumnavigated by changing names and details, polishing up the prose and voila! a book that has a built-in audience is in publishers’ hands. From ‘Fifty Shades’ to ‘After’: Why publishers want fan fiction to go mainstream

I believe all mystery writers aspire to write prose as beautiful as Burke’s. The Crime Novelist William Kent Krueger Still Loves Sherlock Holmes 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Times said Mr. Wimmer had encased “the zany saga in an enchanted aura by couching it entirely in the stream-of-consciousness prose hallowed by James Joyce and disciples.” Dick Wimmer, Whose Persistence Got Him Published, Dies at 74 2011-05-25T03:06:29Z

Anna Quindlen's writing is like knitting; prose that wraps the reader in the warmth and familiarity of domestic life. Anna Quindlen's 'Every Last One': A novel of suburbia's darker side 2010-04-14T21:28:00Z

The form doesn’t seem to interest him, and his prose is poorly suited to it. Knausgaard’s Seasonal Book Series Continues With a Wintry Mix 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Lin's prose – artless, sophisticated, manipulating – requires the endorsement of a similarly turned-on playmate, just as Paul is seeking, and finds, a turned-on playmate in Erin. Taipei by Tao Lin – review 2013-07-04T08:00:01Z

“In more readable prose than most politicians are known to produce, Schiff recounts his conversations at high-stakes moments,” Jonathan Martin writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere the prose is unadorned, even blunt, particularly in the sections where the opaque languages of medicine and bureaucracy flood — infiltrate would be too weak a word — Tom’s voice. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

The elegance and gravity of his formal prose, and the gravelly authority of Mr. Jackson’s voice, stand in contrast to his quicksilver on-camera presence as a lecturer and television guest. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

As my prose became more heavy-handed, my brother became less so and he could eventually play fewer than three notes at a time. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – digested read 2013-05-13T05:30:01Z

What most impressed, perhaps, was Ferris’s keen eye for the many textures of modern American absurdity and his gift for propulsive, entertaining prose. Joshua Ferris’s Ode to the Hapless American Everyman 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

In this one, three characters speak four meaty, ceaselessly absorbing swaths of prose. Theater Review: 'Faith Healer' Casts Its Spell Again 2011-02-22T13:30:04Z

That’s too gorgeous to mutter or rush, as if it were flat-footed prose. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

It was more than just the swirl of their prose. Sonny Mehta, a publishing industry titan, made his mark 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Rowling is a capable storyteller, but I find her prose weak and her borrowings entirely too blatant. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1": Harry Potter goes dark 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z

His gift for lively and informed prose was recognized immediately, and he was soon covering several concerts a week. Ronald Broun, lawyer and Washington Post classical music critic, dies at 75 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Depp and Brinkley admit that they made only the most minor changes to the novel's text, preferring to "let Woody's prose sing". House of Earth by Woody Guthrie – review 2013-02-14T12:00:01Z

In stinging but measured prose, he admonished the vice-chancellor for being "silent on the matter of moral responsibility". India must move beyond book-burning 2010-10-21T14:10:00Z

Only the quiet, humble beauty of Singer’s prose keeps these sections aloft, but that’s sufficient. ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

For Arabs, the poetic form of the Qur'an is one of our cultural foundations, and Shakespeare's blend of verse and prose seems as natural as the way we think; it is the way we breathe. Why Shakespeare is … Palestinian 2012-06-11T14:10:02Z

His is still an interesting book, despite its workmanlike prose, because it involves a journey that takes us from 1930s Washington, D.C., to present-day Palo Alto with pit stops around the world. Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Moxley began in the 1990s avant-garde, writing poems that refused the comforts of prose sense as they attacked the comforts of capitalism. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

“My Bonny” takes us through generations of a family, never stopping long on anyone, letting lives pass as easily as the prose whisks by. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

I think what he did so well was his prose reflected the way our consciousness operates. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

The goal of enabling all children to write a clean, clear sentence is not just some airy-fairy desire to recreate the prose of Kipling. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z

Her prose, like White’s, is especially liquid, and her sentences are ­unimpeachable. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

As in Shakespeare, the lovers are overheated and silly, and when the characters shift downward in station, poetry turns to prose. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

LAGOS, Nigeria — The chaos of Nigeria's largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes "how unpretty" its sprawl looks, with "its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds." Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z

What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations. A Mother and Son, Fleeing for Their Lives Over Treacherous Terrain 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Groff’s prose can be gorgeous, especially with the erotic heat she brings to it here. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Jefferson uses the long poem format, alternating between poetry and prose, despair and triumph, to tell a story that is as compelling for the reader as it seems cathartic for her. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The interest in "Knoxville" is in how Barber longingly and discreetly handles a not obviously singable prose text. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The real trouble here is the translator’s prose. Review | ‘The Red-Haired Woman’: The worst translation Orhan Pamuk has ever suffered 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Kennard writes about the allure of quiet, virus-like resistance to literary convention in his book of prose poems published last year, “Cain.” 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

From the very beginning, when he began to publish pieces in Story magazine and Ploughshares, and later Granta and The New Yorker, Hemon's prose has been chiselled, direct, though saturated with similes. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z

Each squats on a perch between poetry and prose. Review: Sarah Manguso Offers Crumbs Relating to Her Diary 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

“The Great Alone” is not without its moments of compelling pathos, though, and therein lie its strongest connections with Kenny’s prose. Two Novels, United by Troubled Daughters of Damaged Fathers 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

He admired Bach for his mastery of repetition and used the device to rhythmic, incantatory effect in his prose. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Someone with a decent prose style should do a proper translation of it. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z

Written in cool and crystalline prose, “The Shades” unspools in a rational and realistic world in which all is not as it seems. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Also good-looking young actors declaiming poetry and prose in crisply accented, grammatically flawless English. Review: ‘Mary Shelley’ Twists Pain and Passion Into a Monster 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

But other elements are also part of writing; to me, an elegant narrative shape is every bit as beautiful as great prose. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

But his character has inspired a remarkable novel in prose, a celebrated opera and now a stage version of nearly four hours. Theater Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

There is beauty here, and tragedy, though the prose can be, forgive me, flowery. Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

The prose is visceral, as taut as his teenage linebacker protagonist. I Love My Brother, but He’s a White Supremacist 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Sebald's seemingly passive prose was in fact – to borrow Marianne Moore's memorable phrase – "diction galvanised against inertia". WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z

Wouldn't some other term, such as philosophical reflection or prose poem, be more suitable? Lydia Davis: 'My style is a reaction to Proust's long sentences' 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

Linger long enough in the world of Penn’s prose and one starts to lose all purchase on reality, a sort of brain slide that Penn insists was intentional. Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

The scene is nearly unreadable, the unflinching prose keeping us alive to what "before" and "after" photographs would have us forget; this is a violent procedure, partly conducted with a hammer. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z

Screenwriting team Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, veterans of Green’s material who also adapted Fault and The Spectacular Now, will be responsible for transferring prose to film. Cara Delevingne Lands Lead in John Green's Paper Towns 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Reading both novels now, it’s hard not to notice the way botanical imagery and nature metaphors intrude on the prose, like biographical details from the future. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

I call this audacious prose, and celebrate it enthusiastically. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

This atmospheric gangster classic, from 1931, is based on a story by Dashiell Hammett; it offers a terse visual translation of his prose as well as of his cold-blooded view of Prohibition-era underworld wiles. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Moving through the stories, one fights the uneasy sense that while many are lively and engaging, on the whole they lack the spark that animates truly great prose. ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

With beautiful prose and sly humor, Brandon leads his young protagonist through sundry dangers. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

At her best, her prose reads like Smith verbally riffing between songs onstage with her guitarist pal Lenny Kaye, burning up nights with rock poetry. Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“This terrible and occasionally illegible prose never quite overcomes the reader’s trust in Faulkner’s profound creative power,” says the essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, whose new novel is “Run and Hide.” Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

It sounds like “Deadwood,” the profane poetry and syntactic baroqueness of David Milch’s prose preserved as if in 100-proof whiskey. Review: In One Last ‘Deadwood,’ the Future Prevails and the Past Endures 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Many in the audience lost their way in the program because of additional poetry and prose interspersed in the sung text. D.C. trio Eya presents a buffet of early music for lunchtime concert series 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

His is a poet’s prose, given to dithyramb, and it can’t be hurried along. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly

In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that the play conjures “a kind of magic that is purely theatrical yet somehow channels the addictive narrative grip of Ms. Rowling’s prose.” 250,000 More Tickets to Be Released for ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Mencken, Hickey’s best essays will outlive many of the artworks that occasioned them: His prose is that good. Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

She is also a librettist, short story writer and artistic collaborator, most notably with Anne Bevan, for whom she provided prose poems to accompany Bevan's sculptural responses to the history of obstetrics. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z

Because it lacks the obvious discipline of a sonnet or haiku, a prose poem can seem easy to do, but like most apparently straightforward things it's harder than it looks. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

Perhaps it fits that Didion remains as enigmatic here as she always has in her prose. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

In spare prose, Tran paints the sacrifice, guilt and culture clash of immigrant families. In a Debut Novel, a Family Legacy of Resistance 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

This physical pursuit found its way into prose with a series of "somewhat more mainstream" short stories and his 1989 novel Climbers, which follows a man who falls in with a group of rock climbers. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

Yet Iceberg Slim’s prose was, and is, as ecstatic and original as a Chuck Berry guitar solo. Review: ‘Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim’ Studies the Life of a Pimp 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her uncompromising vision and piercing prose are reasons to celebrate the long overdue appearance of this bracing voice in English. Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

We come for the iconoclastic humor, the bizarre imaginative leaps, the constantly startling prose. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins

Vasari had never met Piero, but that did not prevent him from depicting the painter in colorful and demeaning prose. Fame finally comes to little-known Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

The book collects Ortiz’s dreams over a period of four years, in spare and at times mesmerizing prose. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Young's expertise in lighting Black skin transforms Coates' prose, adapted by David Teague, into a love letter rendered in moving pictures and poetry. "Between the World and Me" transforms a father's letter to his son into a chorus for a people 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

The Beloved is a deceptively easy and well-paced read, with passages of heart-stopping prose, but dense with notions around the battle between art and life and the fraught bonds of blood. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z

The spare prose echoes Neruda’s own celebrations in verse of simple things, like the onion: “luminous vessel … bright as a planet,” vanquishing “the hunger / of the laborer along the hard road.” Picture Book Biographies to Dazzle a Fact-Loving Child 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Ireland that Niall Williams writes about in this novel is gone — or would be if he hadn’t cradled it so tenderly in the clover of his prose. Review | ‘This Is Happiness’ is an unforgettable trip to a lost Irish village 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

More than any other book, Jorge Luis Borges’s “Labyrinths,” which I discovered when I was 15, showed me what was possible in short prose nonfiction. Rebecca Solnit: By the Book 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The whole thing is wrapped in the kind of earnest prose of a particularly unsuccessful online dating profile; some sentences, small sketches in surrender and apology, read like calls for mercy before an inevitable execution. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z

The book is reminiscent of the improvisational prose of Langston Hughes and the distinctive voice of Ralph Ellison. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rankine’s book combines poetry, prose and art in commenting on racism in America. Jack Livings Wins PEN Prize for Debut Fiction 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

I feel like since I’m not a professional prose writer who knows certain techniques of writing, for me, all I have is my honesty and humor. Jen Kirkman speaks the truth: On casual sexism, comedy, feminism, the real work of relationships, and why your job won’t save you 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

But much of the prose is powerful, and the story braves themes—the mundanities of single motherhood, the sexual fantasies and frustrations of young women—that still feel underrepresented in contemporary fiction. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

In a climate of criticism too much given over to theories and isms, his lean, accurate prose should be honored and made welcome.” Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2012-09-18T00:04:57Z

His tool box includes spare prose honed under deadline pressure in city rooms and cop shops. Books of The Times: A Newsman?s Family, Missing in Action 2011-03-24T21:19:26Z

Most of these books are already successful in prose. Comics: 'The Art of War' as a graphic novel 2011-04-26T21:08:04Z

With a shrewd, pared-down and epigrammatic prose style, he has written “a quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Blending poetry and prose, Harjo examines her childhood, her ancestors and her path to becoming the country’s first Native American poet laureate. Newly Published, From Water Statues to the Supreme Court 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

His prose is mostly good, and genial, even if this memoir lacks introspection. Among the Literary Lions, at Full Roar, in the 1980s 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

“My poems are about desire, conflict, the dearth of justice for all,” she wrote in “hills,” the prose introduction to her 1986 collection, “Further Adventures With You.” C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

No wonder that the master of that subgenre, Max Beerbohm, esteemed Strachey so highly and spoke almost gushingly about the beauty of his prose. Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Journalists engaged in aggregation are obligated to attribute basic facts, quotes and assertions to their source; any rephrased prose must also be attributed. Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in ‘aggregated’ news stories 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

His name is a not even remotely secret pseudonym for Scott Spencer, the gently literary author still best remembered for the lush prose of his 1979 “Endless Love.” Books of The Times: ‘Breed’ by Chase Novak 2012-08-29T20:56:42Z

It's hard to see much of Hitchens in the spare, terse prose of George Orwell. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z

Combining prose with short poems, “The Tale of Genji” is difficult to classify. Review | ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Japan’s most revered book, and likely the first novel ever. This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Too often Harrington’s crisp, perceptive sentences are followed by three or four more that say pretty much the same thing, dulling her otherwise stylish prose. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Lavender also notes that the book is written with "uncluttered, nonacademic, interesting and unpretentious prose." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Goetzmann dies 2010-09-17T21:56:00Z

Visionaries can't be contained by creed, cultural canon or "managed prose". William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z

I’m not a big horror reader, and his prose isn’t unmissably lapidary or anything. In Stephen King?s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald 2011-11-02T15:57:51Z

I’m making her sound stodgy, but her prose is light-handed and leaves a pleasant sting. In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

J. Michael Martinez’s third book, “Museum of the Americas,” won the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, but its contents are unapologetically, excitingly hybrid, including prose, lineated verse, vintage postcards and black-and-white photographs. A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Although his prose is mostly serviceable and sometimes collapses into abstraction, he brings the town and especially the natural surroundings alive without ever disrupting the pace of his swift-moving tale. Book review: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Earth’ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Still, his scholarly and eloquent prose made the book an enjoyable read and I learnt lots of great anecdotes along the way. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z

Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

“Today, much poetry by women—and prose for that matter—is charged with anger,” Rich continued. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Most of all, though, there's her glorious, fearless, almost fanatically hard-working prose. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-11T07:00:24Z

“It takes away the threat of having to deal with a bunch of sometimes dense, sometimes obscure Victorian prose.” How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

He keeps the words simple, but still his prose is full of warmth, sensation and delight. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z

From his Scripture-based theology and the earthy vigor of his polemical prose emerged one of Luther’s finest achievements: His German translation of the Bible. How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Over the next several decades, living in a loft building on Houston Street, they produced a body of work that gradually extended from poetry and prose to architecture. Arakawa, Artist Who Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 2010-05-20T05:15:00Z

He detects a “fatal particle of vulgarity” in Irving Howe; he dislikes the “specious ‘reasonableness’ ” of Lionel Trilling’s prose. Books of The Times: A Lifetime of Anxiety and Lust 2011-05-25T22:16:59Z

The method developed in his second prose fiction, The Rings of Saturn, in which history is traced through its public manifestations, is adapted here for the purposes of critical discussion. A Place in the Country by WG Sebald – review 2013-06-21T15:00:02Z

It begins: "Traveler waking. Journey begins," and the prose continues on in the mode of these fragments, these clipped near-sentences. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

I don't write like others – I think of myself chiefly as a poet who also writes prose. David Constantine comes in from the periphery to win Frank O'Connor award 2013-07-01T14:17:16Z

What exactly makes HSAPB’s particular flaws — Peterson labels the prose “ungainly” and the plot “not that interesting” — feminist in a new way? Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Auden’s prose, now rounded off by its final two volumes? ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

What is remarkable about McBride as an author is not her subject matter, but the style of her prose, which is almost alchemical in effect. Book Talk: Irish author was told 'didn't fit niche' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

His narrators are often less unreliable than anti-reliable, their thinking expressed in purposely haphazard prose. This Novel Recounts a Haunted Sibling Relationship in Epic Verse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

"On a very basic level, you have to trust that when the other person rewrites your beautiful prose, they're making it better and not worse." Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z

Readers will recognize signature Gardam-esque qualities of later works: psychological acuity, endearingly peculiar characters, and sly, understated prose. Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Seierstad does not write the kind of prose, in this fluent translation from the Norwegian by Sarah Death, that is easy to quote. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

However, the simple plot is transformed by an unexpected twist in the final pages and by Breslin's brilliant prose, which invokes a vibrant world of monks, magistrates and mariners. Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin - review 2011-08-19T14:00:00Z

Her suspenseful story and winning prose ably serve her literary conceit. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z

“Each one is 8, 9, 10 pages of dense prose, and trying to distill all that, I realized before I got to the end of the first draft that this wasn’t going to work.” Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z

Often he went back to his prose to find his poem. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

I'm given to wanting to read the long prose bits, but writing this book I think I'm better at dialogue than I thought I was. John Darnielle on 'Wolf in White Van,' on National Book Award longlist 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

He spoke of the "two types of music" running through his mind- Ibo legends and the prose of Dickens. Agent: Author Chinua Achebe dies at 82 2013-03-22T12:37:10Z

“I’ve always been glad that I kept writing prose, because if I had just gone into writing scripts entirely, by now I would have died from a broken heart.” Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z

I'm a fan of Richard Ford, his prose style and the melancholy he conveys. Summer reading: Guardian US journalists share their tips 2013-07-03T19:14:59Z

Ogawa's haunting prose may not be to everyone's taste, but readers willing to explore the murkier edges of the human psyche will not be disappointed. Review: `Revenge' filled with haunting prose 2013-01-29T21:01:05Z

His diaries and autobiography, in fact, are his main claim to modest fame, for they reveal a superbly observant writer of sometimes highly rhetorical prose. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly

This is meaty and oddly moving stuff, right out of Arthur Miller or David Mamet, and I wish I could say that Professor X’s prose retains its poise and elastic snap throughout. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z

Still, her evocative sense of place and her meticulous observations burst through the purple prose. Helen Macdonald Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of the Natural World 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

It's not that Beckett describes the darkness at length, in great swooping passages of beautiful prose; he doesn't. Darkness in literature: Chris Beckett's Dark Eden 2012-12-18T13:01:36Z

Some will make snide fun of the limitations of Burley's prose style. Kay Burley's book betrays a venerable tradition 2011-03-29T16:10:10Z

Revisiting these novels in audio format is a way to acquaint myself anew with the fiendish plots, terrific prose and indelible characters, and to experience a different version of the initial infatuation. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Lyon's prose throughout is elliptical and hauntingly spare, unfolding exclusively in the present tense. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z

Ms. Hall’s language — both dense and spare — and her sharp handling of complex political and emotional terrain recalls the meticulous prose of Nadine Gordimer. Reviews: New Books From Sarah Hall, Mia Alvar, Katherine Taylor and Others 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Dalrymple’s deceptively simple prose style delivers a wealth of knowledge and understanding. Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z

King’s restrained prose explodes in an ending that combines contemporary realism with cosmic horror reminiscent of H.P. Book review: ‘Revival,’ by Stephen King

Mr. Lemaitre fires away in a prose style that’s like a flurry of short jabs to the solar plexus. ‘Irène,’ by Pierre Lemaitre, a French Crime Novel 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

She calls Henry David Thoreau’s prose “as invigorating as a salt sea-wind” and joins a “girls’ Mark Twain reading club,” the Huckleberry Finners. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

She’s formulated a literary mode somewhere between prose and poetry that enhances the rhythms of speech and narrative. Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are?” Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

They are full of descriptive prose and, crucially for my stories, a journey that’s interesting enough to capture the imagination and make someone want to hear it, yet soothing enough to make them nod off. A book at bedtime: the rise of sleep story apps 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

His prose hit like a howitzer, full of capital letters and exclamation points. The New Sensibility of Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe: The “dark lady” and the man in white were an unlikely pair, but both were looking to liberate American culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

In her memoir of “midlife reckoning” called “Love and Trouble,” Claire Dederer sidesteps both theatrical prose and broad clichés in favor of frank and colorful admissions of impatience, lust and guilt. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Strange to say, there are times when I find Albers’s prose almost too perfectly tuned. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z

Joan Didion's unadorned prose is a huge influence. ArtsBeat: L.A. Story: Karolina Waclawiak Talks About Her First Novel 2012-07-25T19:39:15Z

Plenty of my fellow aficionados seemed to feel the same about the book, with its strange cosmic ruminations and starbursts of poetic, archaic prose. A whale of a time: a Moby-Dick marathon in Massachusetts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

No wonder: it is Banville's stated ambition to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has". John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

At times, her controlled prose breaks into hypnotic lyricism, such as the haunting repetition of a hard-working line: “I am a knife.” Roxane Gay’s powerful new story collection, ‘Difficult Women’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The poet James Merrill said that if poems are chopsticks and radishes and sashimi on a plate, prose is fish guts and cleavers. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker. Woody Guthrie: a century of protest 2012-07-13T21:54:03Z

Andrews unspools Lucy’s coming-of-age story in short numbered fragments, prose poems that at first seem random and out of order, but build in a logical sequence all their own. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

One of the most famously difficult works of 20th-century prose, the novel is a linguistic mash-up of slang, pun, poetry and nonsense. Joycean Character Comes Alive in ‘riverrun’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

That was true of the book as well, but narration works differently onstage than in prose. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Which isn’t to say that masterworks of poetry and prose were necessarily held sacred then, any more than they are now. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Gatsby isn’t just a great story – what really makes it a masterpiece is Fitzgerald’s prose, the near-perfection of his sentences and the surprise and power of his images and symbols. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

“NOON would strive to publish fiction that from sentence to sentence displayed a writer’s no to business-as-usual prose.” Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

I hadn't realized how good Ms.Brown's prose could be.Perhaps because I agree with her on these two episodes. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Ackerley’s “My Dog Tulip” to Stefan Zweig’s “The Post-Office Girl” with many, many others in between, including the nearly complete oeuvres of two master prose stylists, novelist Henry Green and travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. These small presses can help you think big about summer reading 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Her new collection, “Honeydew”, may be more muted in tone, but it retains the 78-year-old author’s ferociously individual style, characterised by prose that is bolshie yet nuanced, elegant but not fussy, stylish without being vain. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Many new readers will be inspired to discover the miracle of Fitzgerald's prose, and the strange subtlety of his vision. Gatsby may be great, but F Scott Fitzgerald is greater 2013-04-29T20:00:00Z

“So much of it is under the surface,” he said in a recent video interview, noting that Keegan’s prose was able to capture an Irish inability to open up. In ‘The Quiet Girl,’ an Irish Loneliness Rarely Seen Onscreen 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The clarity of his prose was also questioned. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Some commentators noted the contrast between Mr. Mitterrand’s erudite prose and elegant deceptions and the current, seemingly more banal presidency of François Hollande. In François Mitterrand Letters, an Intimate Portrait of the Other Woman 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Critics occasionally faulted Mr. Williams for overusing his trademark long line, or wandering too far in the direction of prose, but most found his voice mesmerizing, his poetic tales spellbinding. C. K. Williams, Poet Who Tackled Moral Issues, Dies at 78 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

I adored the unconventionality of this story, from the prose to the big revelations at the end. 6 Unforgettable Y.A. Thrillers to Add to Your Reading List 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

I was finding the prose overblown and was getting irritated with the pointless lives of the super-rich. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z

But in its peculiar juxtapositions of raucous comedy and righteous anger, soaring lyricism and simple prose, it certainly reflects a vision of the Great War as a calamity that shattered civilization for good. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z

Its prose and heart certainly resonated, but what struck a deeper chord was that I had had my own Boo in the faraway South American enclave I lived in as a very young girl. ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

As a historian, he looked back to the Victorians, for whom readable prose was as crucial as archival research, and, like those old-fashioned moralists, he was fond of hierarchies. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

I could say that it is a pity that Tony Blair did not employ a ghostwriter to prettify the prose and organise his recollections more elegantly. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

In travels to places humans left behind in the wake of war and disaster, the Scottish writer Cal Flyn found both lasting damage and surprising resilience, which she documents in lyrical prose. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The prose is lively, alert, musical, unobtrusive, nicely balanced. Peter Straub reviews ‘The Boy Who Drew Monsters,’ by Keith Donohue

Despite Anya’s ghastly prose, Simon can’t resist her, and soon they’re engaged in sexual escapades all over New York, including one particularly exciting tryst in Coney Island’s Terror Tomb that sounds like a Freudian nightmare. Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

A high-octane prose style might possibly have given this some resonance, but Planet Palin is a world where enthusiasm is infectious, smiles thin, barks gruff and lurches violent. The Truth by Michael Palin – review 2012-07-13T21:55:03Z

The prose is intricate, elegant and laced with dry humour. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z

The plot tends to dissuade any impulse to slow down and inspect the finer moldings of the prose. Support and Defend: Tom Clancy's Legacy Lives On 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Drabelle’s prose throughout is sure-footed, spirited and droll in its anachronisms. Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Told in spare, almost terse, prose, it centres on Halland's partner Bess, who discovers, as the days pass, how little she actually knew about the man for whom she left her family 10 years earlier. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T21:43:00Z

Conley was full of confusing contradictions — as deeply embedded in the teachings of the Bible as he was in the prose of great literature. ‘Boy Erased’: A minister’s son trapped between religion and his sexual identity 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

I won’t make you read a daunting pile of prose before rendering a verdict: The stage version of “2666” wins full marks for ambition, but falls short as a work of dramatic art. Review: Bolaño’s Mysterious ‘2666,’ Distilled to 5½ Hours by the Goodman Theater 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Castillo’s prose is less lyrical than propulsive, driven by rises in cadence. A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

His prose, even when overripe, conveys the richness of his heart. 'Springsteen on Broadway': A rock-star confessional with heart 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Ghazvinian has at times taught creative writing, which is evident in the richness and supple prose of the book’s narrative. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The switches you make between empathy and rage and critical distance in the space of a single sentence is present in so much of your prose. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

From the off, Greenwood evokes his home turf in an urgent, vivid prose style. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

Although Arden felt increasingly confined by the theater of his day, he left behind a formidable body of work, written in a surging poetic prose. John Arden, British Playwright, Dies at 81 2012-04-03T18:15:07Z

Perhaps all this exposition stems from the good journalist’s determination to provide context, but the whole enterprise labors under a heavy burden of explainism, accentuated by the novel’s flat, irony-free prose. Review | Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Grunwald writes clean, attractive prose that is its own reward, at least during Henry’s babyhood, which is the most authentically inviting part of this novel. Books of The Times: Lisa Grunwald?s ?Irresistible Henry House?: A Charmer?s Tale 2010-03-15T20:54:00Z

It's a slog – unabridged it would be 100 hours – but both Gibbon's prose and Madoc's reading are rich, dense, magisterial and satisfying. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – review 2012-06-22T21:55:11Z

But if Majella’s spoken range is curtailed, her interior range is vast and illuminated by a prose style at once accessible and stippled with strangeness. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Parlato handles Mr. Shanley’s heightened prose expertly as he talks of art, love and the unusual way he views women. Review: ‘The Dreamer Examines His Pillow’ Talks of Love, Lust and Lots More 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Because that prose is a marvellous instrument, capable of lyrical surprises and the rawest plainness, at once highly constructed and spillingly oral. My hero: Philip Roth by James Wood 2013-03-22T16:00:06Z

The problem is how Fowler goes about it, which is in prose that is alternately sleepy and mawkish. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

How could I — a novice editor, smitten years earlier by the novels “Sula” and “Song of Solomon’’ — lay hands on the prose of a literary hero? ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

His prose is doggedly functional with short sentences and chapters relentlessly working to propel the plot. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z

The anthology also includes a short comic and piece of prose fiction by McKean. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

In The New York Times Book Review, Katie Roiphe called it “as complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.” ArtsBeat: Alison Bechdel Talks About Drawing, Writing, Family and Shame 2012-05-10T15:27:03Z

They write intimate, funny, horrifying prose in defiance of literary convention, and of tyranny. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

“The Plains,” as much a prose poem as a novel, is this Australia’s interior, Murnane’s heartland, a realm of possibility, where “the invisible is only what is too brightly lit.” A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Most of his time is focused on writing poetry and prose, including a memoir about his time in a Chinese labor camp. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

And prose that is clear, lovely and resonant as a ringing bell. Review | Leila Aboulela’s ‘Bird Summons’ takes the traditional road trip novel down a new path 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

But such interpretations can flatten poetry into prose and also serve as strategies to neuter artists, whose works of imagination are “revealed” as nothing more than banal facts. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z

His prose is more considered and his conclusions more nuanced than his partisan journalism. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z

In 2013, she published “Dog Songs,” a book of poems and short prose pieces about the passionate attachments between humans and canines. Mary Oliver Helped Us Stay Amazed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Part 2 is the verbatim notebook, the eponymous confessions of one Robert Wringhim, a demented serial killer whose attempted justifications are described in the "voluptuously tormented prose". Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-07-13T21:55:07Z

This gallery of the new covers showcases artworks as striking as the prose within. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z

Eliot told Virginia Woolf that Joyce's Ulysses, which he believed did in prose what The Waste Land did in verse, "destroyed the whole of the 19th century". I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z

Byatt, who won the Booker for her novel Possession, recalled how her publishers had tried to remove the chunks of "Victorian" prose and poetry from the book. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z

Some complained about the award going to a musician instead of a prose writer. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the same way materialists claim we’re nothing but our bodies, it’s possible to wonder whether a prose style is anything more than words. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

I found it when he writes that “Keller’s prose, so unreservedly committed to earthly life, attains its most astonishing heights at precisely those moments where it reaches out to touch the edge of eternity.” Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z

Occasionally the script drips purple when a more austere shade of prose would serve better. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z

Her funny, conversational prose and brilliant eye for detail whisk us past any yearning for hard reality. Samantha Hunt’s imagination runs wild in 'The Dark Dark' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

We’re made to climb through an endless series of redundant and self-conscious riffs about his own prose, such as this constipated passage: Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

As his autobiography revealed, Mr. Springsteen is as adept in prose as he is with lyrics, so expect plenty of stories to accompany the songs. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Casey is a consummate stylist, and her new book is so richly engaged with language, so profligate with glorious sentences, that at times the prose ascends to the level of poetry. ‘The Man Who Walked Away,’ by Maud Casey 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But this natural disaster, made chillingly real in Deraniyagala’s spare prose, is just a prologue to the real story — the author’s life in its aftermath. ‘Wave:’ weathering the storm of grief 2013-04-03T22:34:50Z

May’s breezy prose is well suited for these moments of casual intimacy, unfolding over drinks, at the hairdresser’s or at the kitchen table, where all the best gossip takes place. The Lives of Black Women, at Home and Abroad 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Still, Buckley leavens the prose with plenty of cute similes: a worn-out LP sounds like a "rhino chewing a bale of cellophane". Telescope by Jonathan Buckley - review 2011-08-26T21:55:04Z

Geniality prevails through “Near-Death Experiences,” at least when it comes to prose merchandise. The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

And as for poetry, I prefer the kind that hides in prose. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Luckily, bad prose can usually be sniffed out within the first few sentences of a book. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Sir Thomas Browne is described as crafting “the oddest, most alluring prose of his century.” A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then curator Lynne Cooke’s winding prose introducing each artist’s show became doctrine. How to talk about art 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z

No question Patti Smith, though being a hopeless classical geek I don’t pretend to understand her world — but she has such flowing, open, heartfelt prose. Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

In his posts, O’Connell openly ruminates on his emotions with heartfelt prose. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z

“Summer” is a prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

The book is Zimmer at his best: obliterating misconceptions about science in gentle prose. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

But it was nevertheless a marvel when, after giving up the art he loved and despairing over his health, Hall found the way back to prose, and to such sterling work. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Expanded from his Gifford lectures, it is, as one might expect of the author of A History of Christianity and Reformation, intellectually robust, and without the prevarications and self-qualifications that sometimes stymie academic prose. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z

This unease – so hard to pin down – is one of the most fascinating aspects of Thomson's prose, both here and in his fiction. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

The letters are so eloquent that Mr. Milner suspects that Knight, who died in 1953, and his friends expected future historians to appreciate the prose. Antiques: Knives of William Scagel, Storied Blacksmith, for Sale 2012-03-01T23:48:40Z

Krohn writes like a fantastical Lydia Davis, in short chapters the length of prose poems. The Books We Loved in 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Yet sharp prose makes her disappointment feel solid, like a layer of fat congealing. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

After the second, he expressed the same view in more soaring prose, writing in the proposal for Prospect Park that its “rural, natural, tranquilizing and poetic character” would be adapted “with the greatest care.” The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The steady headlamps of his prose stun and mesmerize you, as if you were a lumbering mammal caught in the middle of a highway. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

As I examined Ellison’s pictures, however, I wondered whether his documentary photography functioned simply as a supply of source material, or whether it was capable of transmitting the febrile power of his prose. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

He's ambling years behind The Situation and the Kardashians, serving up blanched stereotypes on the silver platter of his prose as though it contained enough spice to entertain or even shock. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z

His prose is as clear and limpid as water, his ear finely attuned to the timbre of the period though mercifully free from archaisms, his characters drawn with subtlety and wit. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

Reminiscent of certain excellent folk tales, expressionless prose is Murata’s trademark. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Benway’s prose reflects Leo’s effort to hold herself together: It’s restrained and understated, never affected or dramatic. In This Y.A. Novel, the Grief Comes Before the Tragedy 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

He is as spare with himself as he is with his prose. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z

Unfortunately, many of the details of “Year of Yes” are obscured beneath layers of extraneous, repetitive prose and unnecessary metaphor — the sort we’ve come to expect from Olivia Pope or Meredith Grey. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lambert’s subtle prose enhances the novel’s creepiness, as does his refusal to fully resolve or explain its many mysteries. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The irony and dark humor of Yamashita’s interrogations, of her nimble prose and sentences, illuminate the tragedies. Susan Straight on the powerful connection between memory, photos and the stories we tell 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Her other work, while no less meticulously crafted, is prose. ‘The dress comes out of pain’: Patience Torlowei creates fashion from the highs and lows of modern Africa 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Wolfe, who died of miliary tuberculosis at the age of 37, was a North Carolina native who drew heavily on his own life to write his poetic prose. Colin Firth at the Berlin film festival: 'If someone wants me to wear a mankini in a film, I will' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Are we going to jot down Carrot Top’s prose 100 years from now? Q. and A.: Chris Rock Is Itching for Dirty Work 2012-08-01T12:00:24Z

Her broad authority and the quality of the prose — astute, compassionate and lethally funny — are what make these essays remarkable. An Essayist Navigates the Labyrinth of American Health Care. Barely. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was renowned for stark and violent novels of the American South and West that were distinguished by a merciless vision and nearly biblical prose. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Her prose is graceful and her book is full of vivid, unsettling detail.” 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Alongside them, Rachael Cole’s prose unfolds at a measured pace that will ease young readers into a restful mood. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Apart from the history that Gibbon narrates — one that should be of interest to Americans right now, I’d say — I’m just knocked over by the prose: those fabulous, architectural, Augustan sentences are dazzling. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

In both “Zeitoun” and “What Is the What,” Eggers’s heroically self-effacing prose revealed the people we blindly walk past on our city streets every day. ‘A Hologram for the King,’ by Dave Eggers 2012-07-20T17:08:36Z

Thornton Wilder’s portrait of small-town American life in a cosmic context is written in plain and forthright prose that grows in power in the recitation of it. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

The late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace is best remembered for writing "Infinite Jest," a sprawling 1,079-page opus full of ironic wit and dynamic, digressive prose. 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The next: “You can remove words which are unnecessary and tighten up your prose.” Batch of Hemingway Ephemera From Cuba Is Digitized 2014-02-10T22:52:36Z

But he left some baffled readers who had persevered through his unconventional prose still lusting to know what, if any, deeper meaning he had hoped to convey. Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

George Orwell would be good for moral instruction and easily digestible with his lucid, masterfully controlled prose. Baby, it's a classic 2010-06-28T08:56:00Z

The long-awaited new novel from the author of “The Secret History” is the sort you get happily lost in; combining page-turning plot twists with achingly beautiful prose. 31 of the best titles of 2013 2013-12-04T22:03:53Z

You will hear dozens of disquisitions, in rich prose, on the moral gridlock of privileged people who can’t think of anything to do that won’t make the world worse. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

In his poetry and his prose, Whitman was exploring novel forms of writing in a new democracy — a language of access, of one body witnessing another in shared space. A Traveler to Troubled Lands, Called to Bear Witness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

In many ways, “The Secret Chord” reads like a prose poem, with battle after battle recounted in detail, but it’s a page turner of a poem. Geraldine Brooks reimagines King David’s life in ‘The Secret Chord’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

But pandering to every plea for politically correct terminology may make your prose unreadable, and therefore also unread. Civilities: The current rage about ‘political correctness’ is both wrong and rude 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

We may be living through a democratization of refined writing—but what, exactly, distinguishes Internet-ese from other experimental prose? Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Without the pressure cooker of overnight writing, Thomson’s prose is still recognizably his, balancing the outlandish and the acute. ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Illustrated and straight prose suggestions are both welcome. Books to Give Your Precocious Readers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The rare video clip comes after we’ve spent nearly six hours seeing the author create an image of virile swagger and invent a style of clean, lucid prose. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Nothing and no one is alien to him, and his story is told by a master of English prose in a style that is complex, imaginative, poetic and spiced with paradox. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Our reviewer, Lisa Ko, praised the novel, writing that Fu is “a propulsive storyteller, using clear and cutting prose to move seamlessly through time.” New in Paperback: ‘What Are We Doing Here?,’ ‘The House of Broken Angels’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Banville, Boyd adds, “is one of the great stylists of fiction in English and ‘Snow’ allows the limpid cadences of his prose free rein.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

But the story is engaging, the prose precise, the characters amusing, and the overall effect one of eccentric charm. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

The prose heats and begins to tumble down the page like poetry, and it is hardly good poetry: ‘Age of Vice’: A Lush Thriller Dives Into New Delhi’s Underworld 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Mantel uses her own words – there is no fustian in the prose – yet all the observations are her character's. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

There have been plenty of Academy annals before, of course: detailed compendiums, official and not; glossy adornments for the coffee table; and at least one prose investigation of its increasingly byzantine fashion system. … It’s the Oscars that Got Small 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

For years, Mr. Salter was a “writer’s writer,” greatly admired for the beauty and precision of his prose, even if few people knew his work. James Salter, novelist with exquisite prose style, dies at 90 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Even his prose – which flows as easily and naturally as a river to the sea – conceals great labour. Eric Newby's other half 2011-04-05T08:00:04Z

His prose seems to have been translated from the Chinese. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z

The hundred or so pages that I read were somewhat fragmentary in nature — he wasn’t great at crafting segues between his memories — but his prose was surprisingly vivid. ArtsBeat: Bumpy Rides: Brendan Koerner Talks About ‘The Skies Belong to Us’ 2013-06-26T18:26:46Z

The idea started as an experiment and took off globally among readers passionate about sharing books and connecting with people through prose. Books: If you love a book, let it go 2011-09-21T17:04:04Z

O'Neill thinks the RSC audiences will find Malory's prose more accessible than Shakespeare's poetry, because "it's not as dense". Le Morte d'Arthur: The RSC throw down the gauntlet 2010-06-06T20:31:00Z

His innovation, starting in the ’60s, was to introduce unrhymed free verse and even prose poetry and to write in mixed meters. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z

Bible treads a fine line between ripe prose and a staccato cadence as he moves into the stories of others scarred by Iggy’s crime. Violent Tragedy Upends a Bible Belt Town in This Brisk Novel 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

The author is Lesley M. M. Blume, a tireless researcher and beautiful writer, who moves through her narrative with seeming effortlessness — a trick that belies the skill and hard labor required to produce such prose. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

In “Blood & Beauty,” she creates a lush stage by providing period details of food, rituals and clothing, then uses dazzling prose to put larger-than-life characters into it. Sarah Dunant’s ‘Blood & Beauty’: tales of the Borgias 2013-07-11T21:33:10Z

It exists in a liminal zone between poetry and prose. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

His prose was lithe, muscular and fast as a bunch of fives. Robert Hughes 2012-08-07T01:48:31Z

But certainly in Hodges’s prose, you can sense a great freeing-up, what in her original discipline is called rubato, a rare ease. A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Crossing that threshold between prose and something-other-than-prose was deeply important to me. Where does music end and poetry begin? David Grubbs wrote his first poem to find out 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Flaubert’s “struggle with his prose” involved “hours of dull agony upon the couch for every racking adventure with the sentence.” Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Even after she quit poetry for prose, she continued to be known primarily as a lyric poet. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Ben Wang, a senior lecturer at the China Institute, will speak about Chang’s life, as well as the novel’s history and precise prose. Spare Times for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Müller was awarded the Nobel prize for her depictions of the "landscape of the dispossessed" in novels that demonstrate "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose". Herta M?ller dodged Romanian secret police by proofreading in forest 2010-03-22T15:55:00Z

The prose would be absurd, if it weren’t for the context. “What if we threatened to kill him?”: My scary creative relationship with another girl 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

“I was writing to impress people, and it turns out that when you do that, you write very unimpressive prose,” he said. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Readers will be mesmerized by Dibbell’s staccato prose as much as they are by the harrowing circumstances this mother and child must endure. The best science-fiction and fantasy books for March 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Its first half performs an erudite vaudeville routine, in prose so unrelentingly pregnant that it ends up effete. Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z

It did not help that Garden & Gun’s spare layouts and meandering prose differed radically from the shorter, flashier articles many magazines were moving toward to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Garden & Gun Magazine Survives in an Ailing Industry 2012-09-02T22:30:34Z

The sheer pleasure of reading wonderful prose or poetry. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

His best-known book, Out Stealing Horses, won the International Impac award, Richard Ford has called him "a profoundly gifted novelist", and critics often remark on the beauty of his prose. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

“In Cold Blood” aestheticized the Clutter murders, mixing lurid details with gossamer prose. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

And yet there are traces of beautifully resonant writing, evoking the moment, bringing human faces close to our own, throughout "The Age of Anxiety" – they're just all in prose. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

“The style is a trifle primitive,” one observer wrote about Anderson’s prose, “gauche, aggressive, maudlin ... it speaks in pungent slang.” Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z

In “Prince Lestat,” the first Vampire Chronicles novel in a decade, Rice’s queenly prose is unaltered. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

An example: Gary Shteyngart's 2010 novel Super Sad Love Story is full of the kind of nimble prose Nabokov would be proud of. Has plot driven out other kinds of story? 2011-07-14T14:49:52Z

The transgressiveness works in part because of the rhythmic assurance of the prose. Daisy Johnson’s Uncanny Début Novel Rewrites Oedipus 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

"Riot Baby" has also been praised for its "fantastical originality with his incredible worldbuilding and devastating prose. Stark, sharp, and brutal." "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Still, any sensitive reader will linger over the beautiful sentences with which Nabokov enriches even his most casual prose. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

But that happens to many families — my primary quibble with “Skinfolk” is that Guterl’s distanced prose and chronic abstraction holds us back from seeing how this statement applies specifically to his. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

As for the "overall crassness" of internet prose, there is an increasing amount of very fine essay-writing going on for online-only publications such as Aeon magazine and Matter. Internet English debasing the language? Not IMHO | 2013-05-28T10:10:43Z

This gallery of vivid portraits makes for an intensely engaging book, notable for its intellectual breadth, arms-wide research and high-octane prose that keeps it riding high over the mass of details. Books of The Times: ‘The Third Coast,’ a History of Chicago by Thomas Dyja 2013-05-16T20:11:15Z

The book was very much conceived in prose form, but the characters have not let go of me yet. ArtsBeat: Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel 2012-08-15T15:45:38Z

These are the very paradoxes of Macdonald’s prose — its lightness and force. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Part of this stems from the blandness of its prose. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes

That quality, even more than his satirical flair or the buoyant elegance of his prose, marks his greatest feat of self-invention. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

The story moves quickly, rendered in straightforward prose. What Makes a Good Chinese Father? In a New Novel, It’s Complicated. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

He charted the absurdities and sadnesses of life in this land of hype and hyperbole, and he did so in incandescent prose that was as magical as it was elastic. Book Review: ‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace 2012-11-15T16:55:36Z

He also writes prose, having published two successful novels and readying a third. ‘The X-Files’ star David Duchnovny has a new gig: touring musician 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Like those North American masters of the domestic realm, Hadley crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural. Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Coates dives into this question, and while open letters often feel didactic, his elegiac prose and deep curiosity allow his book to continually open up to meaning. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

And the silence: 50 years in a room silent as the bottom of a pool, eking out, when all went well, my minimum daily allowance of usable prose. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Merwin’s prose, whether closer to fiction or to memoir, is an oddly complementary contrast to his poetry and offers a trove of surprises, delights, and revelations. W. S. Merwin in The New Yorker 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

If you read Joseph Conrad, you're not surprised to learn he was born a Pole; there's an underlying oddness to his prose, however correct, whereas Koestler's tone is pure tweed from Savile Row. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Comic artists can also employ visual elements such as images from the Black Arts Movement, or figures from Yoruba and Igbo mythology, in ways that aren’t available to prose writers. Beyond ‘Black Panther’: Afrofuturism Is Booming in Comics 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

It’s 55 minutes of poetry and prose, at the Public Theater. Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017’s Theatrical Adventures 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

The book's workmanlike prose never fully evokes Lisbon's vibrancy and ferment. Book recounts Lisbon in the shadow of WWII 2011-12-01T00:45:04Z

Borges, who considered Browne the best prose writer in the English language, described paradise as a library, but paradises are overrated. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

In some ways, that prose is what mainly survives today of “Eminent Victorians.” Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

For anyone who has ever thought Charles Dickens was lurking inside his or her prose, a new website claims it can find your inner author. I Write Like erupts online, authors scratch heads 2010-07-16T21:57:00Z

But I cite them here not for those reasons but due to the way this hour channels Douglass' prose through their personal identities as keepers of his legacy. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Freed approaches the world — and her prose — with the cleareyed, forthright wonder required of the most committed of travelers. Travel Books Take You There and Back 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Slimani, 39, has made a career out of catching readers on the wrong foot with unsparing prose. Leïla Slimani Has Written About a Sex Addict and a Murderous Nanny. Next Up: Her Own Family. 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

The fairy even hovers over Harbart’s suicide, and a similar lighter touch informs the prose, enlivened by assonance and alliteration. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Novels are judged by their artist’s biographies instead of their prose; readers are inured to mediocrity. A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith Accordingly 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Mr Steinmetz’s prose does not always sparkle and some arcane details of banking history are fuzzy, but the tale of Fugger’s aspiration, ruthlessness and greed is riveting. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

But the major part of such empathy is induced by Mr. Ridley’s prose, and the way it’s spoken by two brave and talented young performers. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

About them, she writes, in the sort of homely prose that fills this book, "They were middle-class folks who loved God, family and their country." 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z

But where Nabokov is all high-plumed prose and remove, presiding at his lectern, Saunders is at your elbow, ladling praise — “my good-hearted trooper,” he addresses us. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s only with the rise of the Internet that a truly casual, willfully ephemeral prose has ascended—and become central to daily life. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

In a statement to the Times, the writer Jilly Cooper praised Brookner as a “wonderful writer” whose keen powers of observation fertilized “wonderful lucid prose.” Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-Winning Author, Dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Vivid details punctuate the spare prose: a starving man eating a candle, the “crippled doors” of looted homes. Best children’s and YA books for March 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

A prolific author often compared to Anton Chekhov and known for his limpid French prose, Mr. Makine used the pen name since 2001 to write novels about the world’s cruelty and human quest for transcendence. ArtsBeat: Who is Gabriel Osmonde? A French Literary Mystery is Solved 2011-04-01T17:40:04Z

Los Angeles Times TV critic Mary McNamara called the series "television as prose poem." SundanceTV renews 'Rectify' for third season 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

My preteen prose and high school poetry sat boxed in my attic. Mortified: Reading old diary entries in front of an audience is only part of the challenge

Your reviews were extremely passionate about this emotive novel, describing the prose as 'heart-touching' 'just beautiful' and 'surprisingly optimistic'. Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-07-08T14:00:00Z

Outside it is a cold day, hard and unyielding, full of prose and harshness. A brief survey of the short story part 30: Bruno Schulz 2010-12-03T10:09:00Z

Vladimir Nabokov was right when he called Tolstoy’s prose “so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon.” ArtsBeat: A Book Critic At the Ballet 2011-07-14T20:22:03Z

And though there are few flourishes in the writing, for a scientist, the prose is remarkably clear, if a bit repetitive at times. We Aren’t Destroying the Earth 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Hey, listen, if you are in the Bay Area, I will be participating in an unusual reading on Thursday night in Sausalito called “Pairings,” where prose writers and poets read each other’s work aloud. Stifled poet in India 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z

At times, Riley's prose is so psychologically exact, so brilliantly attuned to the smallest gradations in atmosphere and tension, that reading it is almost physically painful. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

To create his effects, he relies on sharp dialogue set off against shadows, on deft slices of prose: “My eyes were like two cigarette burns” and a woman’s fingers move “like praying mantises.” Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Forced to live off freelance earnings writing for the Economist and the Observer, Deutscher sometimes cut corners to meet a deadline, but the prose was always meticulous. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z

This is its most interesting accomplishment: It ignores the Western gaze, despite Kochai’s firm grasp of its prose standards. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The photographs in Uncommon Places and American Surfaces evoked a sad, ever-spreading hinterland that novelist Raymond Carver also mapped out in his minimalist prose. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z

Lou Reed's Street Hassle features Bruce Springsteen as performance poet, the singer reading a passage of prose in the final moments. Readers recommend songs with special guests: the Results 2010-10-21T21:59:00Z

In fluid and uncluttered prose, “Golden Child” weaves an enveloping portrait of an insular social order in which the claustrophobic support of family and neighbors coexists with an omnipresent threat from the same corners. A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

He describes countless scenes of terror, disgust, insanity and stupidity in prose that is lucid and unadorned. ‘With the Old Breed,’ an Intimate Look at Terror in World War II 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Blended with Hemingway's journalism training and the tenets of Pound's Imagism, this results in prose that deals with its subject in short, simple sentences mostly comprised of nouns and verbs. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z

Both also veer away from narrative to chase any excuse for a riff — then swing back with prose so good you feel guilty complaining about the whiplash. A Madcap New Novel Bursts With Fake Gurus, Yoga and a Bit of Bone-Marrow Smuggling 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The prevalent characteristic of the Irish prose style is its musicality. Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

But the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien unpacks how Hemingway’s raw, tactile prose centers the woman’s thoughts and sensations. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

But it’s more likely just an awkward choice in a production that is not confrontational enough, muffling the pathos of its hard facts in virtuoso performance art and numbingly overwritten prose poetry. Theater Review: ?James X? by Gerard Mannix Flynn - Review 2011-12-10T00:21:41Z

It's with a sharply satirical prose style that Shipstead – winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas prize – succeeds in stripping back slick social exteriors to reveal that world within. Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead – review 2013-07-21T13:00:00Z

Heti has long been a devastating writer about sexual magnetism, her prose as sensitive as the tip of a conductor’s baton. ‘Pure Colour’ Seeks Answers About Love, Mortality and God 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

In fact, Gaddafi himself likes to load his prose with allusions to the Qu'ran, even though he has frequently been quite "liberal" in his interpretation of Islam. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z

But the novel is redeemed by its incandescent prose. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z

From her prose collection "Ayiti" to her Twitter feed to her forthcoming book of essays, "Bad Feminist," she does not shy away from calling attention to all forms of disenfranchisement. Roxane Gay's 'An Untamed State' gives torture survivor a voice 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

What I've noticed, though, is that the influences that often matter most to novelists – allowing for the occasional big daddy glowering over your prose – are not writers at all but sublime practitioners in other artforms. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

From the music to the prose, Jean-Raymond gave his audience a symphony of grounding bass and emotional grace notes. Robin Givhan: One Sunday night at Fashion Week redefined the stories that clothes can tell - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The illustrations tell most of this story, while the spare, incantatory prose mostly sets the tone. Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Schlingensief was a talented, energetic maverick, often working on several projects at the same time: films, theatre, opera, blogs, interviews, prose, art actions, videos. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z

Her prose, wonderfully dry at times, can be moist. ‘On Immunity: An Inoculation,’ by Eula Biss 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

He argued that it contained “defamatory, scandalous, obscene and inflammatory matter” and that Mr. Anobile had assured him that he was going to turn his raw language into respectable prose. Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

There are sections for book-length manuscript and chapbook submissions, as well as lists of journals focused on poetry or prose, but my favorite section is “Residencies, Fellowships, Conferences, & Opportunities.” Must-reads and where to be read on this week's literary web 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The submissions were myriad, including fan art of Hillary Clinton, prose, poetry and, finally, a screenshot of a definition of how “femininity” is used in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Meet the woman who changed the dictionary definition of ‘femininity’ 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Few authors are more adept at translating technical jargon into graceful prose, or at illustrating how hubris and greed can cause geniuses to lose their way. Book Review Podcast: Walter Isaacson's 'The Innovators' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Yet these adventures ditched traditional, high-flown prose in favour of stylised American slang, the pages juggling steel-trap dialogue with silken similes. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

The world observed and the interior life are slowed down, the rhythms in the prose given a strange and powerful nervous energy, every nuance and angle offered their due. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The mournful Appalachian music of his eloquent prose is usually enough. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z

“In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.” Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z

In truth, though, younger 21st-century readers are likely to find these extracts somewhat demanding; this is prose you are meant to savor, not skim over. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dyer’s new book, “Otherwise Known as the Human Condition,” is a collection of his occasional prose — reviews and essays culled from places like The Guardian, Esquire, The American Scholar and Granta. Books of The Times: Inducements to Filthiness and Other Paradoxes 2011-03-22T11:00:00Z

Gay manages to explain why she found Santopietro’s book unsatisfying in clear and cogent prose, without the hesitation and pulled punches that plague many other reviewers. Letters to the Editor 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

He is not so much credulous as excitable, given to interrupting the prose of researchers and analysts with flights of poetry. Review: ‘Lo and Behold,’ the Danger, and Potential, of the Digital Revolution 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Though she is a prose writer, I would include Toni Morrison in this list. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

But Hawthorne's elegant, densely narrative prose style did not simply dwell on sexual scandal. Seattle's Intiman Theatre premieres a new adaptation of 'The Scarlet Letter' 2010-10-20T23:20:00Z

I don’t wish to overpraise it: it has soft spots; it frequently deals with material covered in better books; you will not confuse the author’s modest prose with Nabokov’s. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z

The prose surrounding Jay Gatsby is so good it allows us to share Nick's vision of his largeness of soul and the heroism of his quest, to celebrate "the colossal vitality of his illusion". Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z

Goehr's To Those Dark Steps/ The Fathers Are Watching, for tenor, children's choir and ensemble, sets poetry and prose by the Israeli poet Gabriel Levin. BCMG/Knussen – review 2012-10-02T17:12:31Z

In prose that is both abrupt and tender, she skewers the hydraulics of family and the insensitivities of those who think themselves exquisitely sensitive. New Israeli Fiction: A Reluctant Bride, a Brave Survivor and Fables for a Modern World 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Let me propose a simple definition for nonfiction: Any piece of prose that isn’t fiction. (Re-)defining nonfiction, again 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Glück has published 12 collections of poetry and several collections of prose. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Critics may look up to Thomson’s prose, but not to his ethics. ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Written in lovely, casual prose that Forster himself would have admired, the book depicted the author and his world with candor and affection,” Ms. Kakutani wrote. P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

And both feature a climactic chase through harsh but beautiful wilderness that Waite evokes with muscular prose. ‘The Carrion Birds’: battling for survival in the New Mexican wilderness 2013-04-11T20:42:50Z

Whether in descriptions of men falling through the English skies from burning zeppelins or thugs marching a trouserless Jewish lawyer through the streets of Frankfurt, Germany, Behrens’s prose thrills to the indelible and the irrevocable. ‘Carry Me’ review: Life and love in harrowing wartime Europe spring to life 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Casual elegance, what she perfected at her restaurant, is missing in prose heavy on hollow bromides and wincing cliches. Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story; each somehow enhances the other. Book review: ‘Descent’ by Tim Johnston 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

A New Republic review of 1927 compared Hemingway's prose to cubism, but the more direct comparison is with the powerful "form as content" approach Joyce developed in Dubliners. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z

Over four works of fiction, Anna Burns has developed a singular prose style for simulating the internal explosion of familial voices in a character’s head. A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Now a monster compilation, "What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford," has assembled more than 700 pages of poetry and a little prose like a moon-spattered Bible. Swept away by 'What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Through Chisholm's punchy prose, readers will be taken through his whirlwind career filled with demanding customers, squalid living conditions and panic attacks in the Pass. From "The Bear" to "The Menu," this was the year pop culture faced the horrors of fine dining 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

The text on the page reads like an excerpt from a Persian literary work mixing prose and poetry. Special Report: Asian Art: 'Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

From 1940 to 1954, he brought feisty opinions and lucid, colloquial prose to The New York Herald Tribune, where he championed living composers, especially Americans. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But these interludes are written in the same restrained, inelegant prose and read like a series of news updates, a body of text that was rushed to print on stringent newspaper deadline. Books of The Times: Kidnapped Reporter and His Wife, a World Apart, Enduring Their Test 2010-12-26T22:14:24Z

More powerful than Emezi’s prose, though, is what it brings to the real world. In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Reece, an Episcopal priest, is working on a prose book about his decision to enter the priesthood late in life. National Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

The prose isn't, it has to be said, poetic and languorous, and one twist in particular is hopelessly obvious. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z

Sorry for that spoiler, but are we supposed to believe that the venomous prose here is all an elaborate inside joke between two 50-something famous girlfriends? The big wink-wink at the center of Candace Bushnell’s new novel 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Musician, poet and photographer, Ms. Smith, 68, is remarkably attuned to the sound and sorcery of words, and her prose here is both lyrical and radiantly pictorial. Review: ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith on All the Roads She Has Taken 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The adaptation retained much of Porter’s signature prose style, which Murphy said was well suited to the stage. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Despite her often magical prose Ms. Smith does not manage to orchestrate such elements into a satisfying or original story, largely because her depictions of Leah and Natalie remain so slapdash and judgmental. Books of The Times: ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith 2012-08-26T19:49:57Z

Her prose is graceful and her book is full of vivid, unsettling detail. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

In her first book, “Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise,” published in 1980, she addressed the problems of identity, history and colonialism in a series of prose poems. Michele Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

In that first production “View” was one act, written in verse because, in Miller’s opinion, verse was better suited than prose to expressing universal themes. 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z

But Shepard explored his condition through his writing — in vivid, precise prose that transformed his worsening symptoms into something akin to poetry. A Final Work by Sam Shepard Reveals His Struggle With Lou Gehrig’s Disease 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

At that point I don’t want to take in any more information and I do want the rhythms of great prose to be the last thing I take in before falling asleep. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Keene presents many of his stories in the official voice of history; they include maps and newspaper clippings and employ archaic prose styles, and they gradually reveal the ways in which histories lie. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Among more than 300 items are 144 letters, offering a window into the author’s life through his famously vivid prose. Lost portrait and unpublished letters of Charles Dickens to go on display 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

He writes a clear prose that transforms ordinary events, detailing the span of his life with such directness that everything seems to be happening in real time. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Intended to sway the hearts of browsing parents, the promotional prose made light of serious issues: words like ‘this little cutie’ were interspersed with words like ‘blind.’ Motherlode Blog: Deciding Whether to Have More Children 2011-08-19T20:15:05Z

In it, the mundane is rendered extraordinary through the alchemy of effortless prose. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Besides the handful of readers who had no idea the book was a script and were outraged not to get a new Potter novel, many missed the description and detail of Rowling’s prose. The Magic Is Gone but Harry Potter Will Never Die 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Her peculiar, unsettling worlds, rendered in prose trimmed of sentiment and ornament, overflow with desperation and tragedy. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

I am a sucker for forbidden or unusual romances with strong female characters and equally strong prose. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

But Trabocchi is also like the writer who pads his prose if only because he can. Fiola Mare brings the Adriatic to Georgetown

You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. Authors Janet Fitch, Cynthia Bond share admiration for each other's work 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

But like its predecessors, “Dusk Night Dawn” delivers prose that satisfies literary as well as spiritual tastes. Anne Lamott reflects on the popularity of her spiritual books and how she became ‘a pretty decent writer’ 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

I think this may be from prose writing, but they get a lot of editing. A Conversation with Jimmy Buffett 2013-08-19T11:00:25Z

Such anxiety emerges as one of the strengths of House’s raw and tender prose — “Mother Noise” feels lovingly labored over, expertly whittled and chiseled into its current frank form. Three Memoirs That Re-examine Challenges in Life and Identity 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Another important thing that biblical prose taught me was objectivity. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z

Some of his prose, penned on battleships, sounds practically unhinged. Antiques: Notes to Lady Hamilton, Who Drove Admiral Nelson Wild 2011-02-10T21:35:33Z

As her depression deepens, her prose grows more self-aware and more gravely disconsolate. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Just such a fondness for involution became the hallmark of his own prose. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

Yet even Beah’s fluid prose cannot save the first hundred pages from feeling oversaturated with information and names, which he gives to even the most insignificant characters. A ‘Little Family’ Against the World 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The prose is gorgeous, and the specificity of place is an enjoyable counterpoint to the mythic vastness of a story about traveling to the underworld. The Best New Fantasy Novels 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

In “Canada,” Chai captures adolescence in precise, humorous prose: “Mama told Aunt Mei about my needing a training bra,” the teenage Lu-lu remarks. Review | An award-winning story collection sheds light on different immigrant experiences 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her struggle, in Mr. Maksik’s clipped, rhythmic and repetitive prose, is an exhausting street fight against relentless foes. Books of The Times: Alexander Maksik’s New Novel, ‘A Marker to Measure Drift’ 2013-08-22T19:58:56Z

Given that short stories are so horrifyingly demanding technically, the anthology was an opportunity to give my prose its initial experience of proper training. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

The language in “The Peregrine” is unlike any prose I have read. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

The borders between television and prose fiction grow ever porous. When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using ‘Reveal’ as a Noun 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

But in this regard, “Deep River” isn’t a descendant of Kesey so much as Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” which was distinguished as much by its homely prose as its moral righteousness. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

Raphael's linguistic skills were superb, and he regarded such linguistic facility as an absolute essential – without it, one could not understand the nuances, the alliterations and the associations of medieval poetry or prose. Raphael Loewe obituary 2011-08-04T18:00:49Z

Gordon, 61, opens her book with the band’s last show in Brazil — dispatching the unseemliness of their split in clean and quick prose. Kim Gordon is wrong when she says ‘I don’t know what cool is anymore’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

De Robertis’s prose is most moving when it’s direct and unembellished, but her metaphors can be heavy-handed, as in the overuse of water imagery — emotions, words, hearts, bodies always seem to be drowning, spilling, pouring. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

The chronology, usually a reliable overview of life and work, is largely a list of exhibitions in prose form. Lygia Clark’s Many Twists and Turns, at MoMA 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

In his introduction Sisman says that the letters are written in a “free-flowing prose that is easier and more entertaining to read” than that of Fermor’s travel books, which is true up to a point. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Written in plain-spoken prose, the slim volume focuses on a character who in many ways personifies a demographic panic in Japan. For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

When it came to my turn, I said who I was, told them I was nineteen and wrote prose, somewhere between Hamsun and Bukowski, and was working on a novel at the moment. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

But for the most part Fitzgerald's prose is a kind of experiment in restrained extravagance. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

While usually clear and journalistic, Young’s prose constantly shifts registers, sometimes veering into cultural theorizing, at other times opting for sassily hip street talk. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Kilmer’s tone is raw and reflective as he weaves poems into his expressive prose. Review | Val Kilmer’s ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ offers a scatterbrained journey into his idiosyncratic head space 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

He is especially tough on Paul Auster for writing prose that is "sodden with cliché", in which "accidents attack the narrative like automobiles falling out of the sky". The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z

The stilted affect that so often characterizes Ishiguro’s prose and dialogue — an incantatory flatness that belies its revelatory ability — serves its literal function. A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

What doesn’t break, however, are the poems’ lines; all but three are in a prose format, perhaps as a way to avoid artifice. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Anyone thinking about taking this journey needs to be given a travel advisory: much of the prose is execrable. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

But the fatalism of this story is countered by the beauty of Mbue’s prose and the purity of her vision. Review | In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

They deserve dignity, too, which Desmond’s forceful prose bestows on them in abundance. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

His early stories about strange gods, as well as his prose poems such as “Idle Days on the Yann,” are composed in sentences of exquisite musicality. Boo! The best ghost stories you probably haven’t heard yet. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

No footnotes interrupt her cliché-ridden prose, and extraordinary claims are retailed with no attempt to assess the evidence on which they presumably rest. ‘The Pleasure Shock’ Review: This Is Your Brain On Batteries 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Any admirer of “The Dying Earth,” “Star King” or “Lyonesse” — and that means everyone who reads these masterpieces of urbane and wistful prose — will want this memoir. Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The content of his prose defies extraction, conversion and consumption: in this way, as in others, his politics are grained deep into his style. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

Gilbert is a sharp and amusing prose stylist and an openhearted critic of her own foibles and failings. "Eat, Pray, Love": A phenomenon goes bust 2010-08-13T00:20:00Z

But it does mean that you need not burden your prose with extra words or convoluted constructions just for the sake of syntactic box-ticking. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z

It’s a big, ambitious book guided by the same intelligence and sly prose that distinguished her portrait of Kingsley. ‘ Gentlemen’: a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The prose is peppered with sad, lyrical sentences that hint at his childhood loneliness and confusion. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Army soldier serving in 1917 amid war and a flu epidemic and turns some of his prose into her own verse. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Charb’s tragic death casts a long shadow over this book, whose patient prose allows the cartoonist to give a fuller, more nuanced take on the ideas that incited such controversy and anger. In posthumous manifesto, Charlie Hebdo editor speaks out against hate 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Grant’s prose possesses a stream-of-consciousness quality, reading at times as if her memories were transcribed by someone else. Lee Grant: ‘I Said Yes to Everything’ — including a facelift (but don’t ask her age)

One of McSweeney’s tricks is the faux typo, the little “mistake” that is so much more apparent in a poem than it would be in prose, since our attention to individual words is heightened. For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the Message 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her faith is quite possibly unrealistic, but couched in Messud’s lucid, quietly fiery prose, it’s also inspiring. Review | Claire Messud has an antidote to our current polarized isolation 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

As befits a good Stoic, Farnsworth’s expository prose exhibits both clarity and an unflappable calm. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

In The Fermata he stops time so he can explore the world at leisure; in The Anthologist the narrator brilliantly remarks that "poetry is prose in slow motion". Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z

Here’s one way to distinguish literary fiction from genre fiction: In genre writing, the action is in the plot; in literary, the action is in the prose. Deception and death on a gorgeous Greek isle 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

The latter is used for both types of books: to mark factual tidbits to incorporate into future books or to note passages of prose that do something unique or are exceptionally well done. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Out goes the poetry, more or less, to be replaced by prose dialogue stuffed with contemporary vernacular and quite a few nice jokes. Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Takes a Populist Turn as a Musical 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

She has also embraced a much more intellectual and philosophical approach to thinking about her life, reflected in a dramatically different prose style. Review | For ‘Unorthodox’ fans, Deborah Feldman’s new memoir offers intriguing update 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Deft, witty, self-possessed, they are exuberant little slices of life rendered in gently ironic prose. Winter Journal by Paul Auster – review 2012-08-15T10:00:02Z

And while their titles may seem formulaic at this point, their plots and prose often wreak havoc on the tired trope of girls in peril. This Summer, Girls in Titles and Girls in Peril 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

In that book, written in vigorous, keenly observed prose, Merton described his gradual and unusual path toward a life dedicated to spiritual contemplation. Review: ‘The Glory of the World,’ About Thomas Merton 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The early English realists presented their books not as fictional prose narratives but as journals, collections of letters and other found documents. A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s pretty tough to compensate for bad prose. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The sex, drugs and rock'n'roll are there, and that distinctive Burgess prose – swaggering, intense and exciting – thrums through it all. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z

Yet there’s nothing depleted about Ms. Lacey’s prose, which manages to be dreamy and fierce at the same time. Catherine Lacey’s ‘Nobody Is Ever Missing’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

And how do we—or do we—experience the music of a piece of poetry or prose when we read it silently? This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

I worked out passages from the great, doomed Lermontov, whose prose is relatively simple. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z

It's fortunate, then, that DeLillo's prose is so rigorous and so precise. Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

Today, all three still live on, each a universe in itself, read and discussed — and fought over — as if written not in prose but in hieroglyphics or code. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The prose was too rich for my blood, I’m afraid. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The surrealists wanted to exploit the "mystique of accident", creating fragments of prose or poetry that revealed what they described as "the unconscious reality in the personality of the group". Lets construct an exquisite corpse 2010-04-14T08:22:00Z

But he also insisted that the series remains “wildly reverential” to the spirit and prose of the book, which he called an “essential piece of American literature.” ‘Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire’: Old Monsters, New Blood 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

What it lacks is the richness of Waters's prose, and depth to the characters and the complicated relationships between them. TV review 2011-07-12T21:39:00Z

But beyond the purple prose are excellent recipes with exacting instructions. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks, for Novices and Pros 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

While Cullen’s writing is impassioned, a plea for the rest of us not to dismiss places like Storm Lake, the prose too often feels careless and imprecise. How a Small-Town Newspaper Editor Won a Pulitzer Prize 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

His prose also achieves a difficult feat, which is to get French readers to face, time and time again, the unspeakable acts of betrayal and cowardice perpetuated during the Occupation. Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox

Born in 1853 in Havana, Cuba, Martí wrote the bulk of his 28 volumes of prose, poetry and speeches in late 19th-century New York. 5 Latino authors you should be reading now 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Anderson’s prose — Sylv.ie’s voice — offers a beautiful combination of naivete and wisdom, full of nonhuman puzzlements, off-kilter observations and limpid poetry: Review | In Ros Anderson’s ‘The Hierarchies,’ a robotic heroine longs for a better life 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

To re-create the feeling of the landscape, Woods must re-lay the bricks of every street—hence his indignation, when reviews of his translations praise the author’s prose as if it were not his as well. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Choi’s sharp and honest prose makes watching Penny and Sam fall in love just plain fun. 6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Egan, who covered the American West for The New York Times and now contributes to its Web site, is a brisk and muscular writer, with a knack for vernacular prose. Books of The Times: ‘Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher,’ by Timothy Egan 2012-11-11T23:33:07Z

“From a Low and Quiet Sea,” a new novel by Donal Ryan, is so exquisitely rendered, with raw anguish sublimated into lyrical prose, that you sometimes overlook the meagerness of its slice-of-life offerings. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The novel has drawn widespread praise from reviewers impressed with Haslett’s bold, original prose, and it was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Adam Haslett, L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, discusses 'Imagine Me Gone' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Her prose, Anthony Doerr wrote in his review, “is full of blues and blacks, written in the ink of grief, suffering, healing and — ultimately — clarity.” New in Paperback: ‘What You Are Going Through,’ ‘Finding Freedom’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s no literary accident that much of “Now Do You Know Where You Are” is composed of prose punctuated by occasional fits of verse: Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

"Whatever happened to him, real or imagined, he turned into prose," Vidal wrote. Rare Tennessee Williams story published 2014-03-25T04:08:35Z

The rhythms, the prose style, are the same—almost the same. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s the prose version of France’s Oscar-nominated documentary of the same name — and somehow manages to pack all the emotional power of that film with far more granular detail and narrative force. The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

The prose is in perfect step with the rough chance the book trades in. Jim Ruland's 'Forest of Fortune' brilliantly taps casinos' irony 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

His prose has never been ornamental, but in his later years it has grown particularly spare. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

"The Small Backs of Children" is not always enjoyable, but it is fierce in its vision, with captivating prose that carries its own momentum. Lidia Yuknavitch's 'Backs of Small Children' evokes discomfort even as it dazzles 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The only certainty is that they don't write good prose memoirs. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:04Z

Sadness doesn’t crackle, except on occasion in Trent Reznor’s songs and Nabokov’s prose. Books of The Times: Carter, Reagan and Freaky Times 2011-02-15T22:00:07Z

May he never quit his day job; Penn delivers prose as if he were gunning for a prize from the American Alliteration Association. Review | What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess, again. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

He writes for Rolling Stone magazine, and uses a busy, knowing prose. The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-04T22:55:16Z

What makes the novel so gripping, apart from Koryta's scalpel-sharp prose and eye for detail, is the characterisation of Wagner, a laconic drifter haunted by the past. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-05T00:07:12Z

It’s a breezy read with more than a little overblown prose, some of it just plain silly. Books of The Times: Brian Stelter’s ‘Top of the Morning,’ on Talk Show Wars 2013-04-22T20:27:32Z

This anthology of "poetry and prose with a Northwest and Jewish tilt" is the fourth in a series. Seattle-area authors write memoirs of friendships with animals 2010-06-21T20:36:00Z

"Dad was full of ideas . . . He would write them, and my mother would polish the prose, as it were." Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

I’ve written more and more prose recently, along with some plays. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

If what you really want to do is read excellent prose, you would be better off buying a book, the kind that comes with pages and everything. Text Games in a New Era of Stories 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

She has described her prose as “brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene.” Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The chosen prose, though often heartfelt, is not the stuff of readings. Review | Fringe Festival’s early returns: Politics in the lead 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, the critic Parul Sehgal described Levy’s lucid prose as “light-handed” and leaving “a pleasant sting‌,” and ‌Levy has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice. With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

Their stories come to us in a spare, present-tense prose that puts the reader directly at the edge of unfolding events. ‘Mr. Mercedes,’ by Stephen King

What they have in common with mathematicians is that the outside world sees them communicating in something other than standard English prose, and concludes they must be doing something really weird and abstract. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Windsor-Smith’s overheated prose style is subtler and more convincing here, as he writes in the voice of a woman widowed by the war in spirit if not fact. How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

A 2016 MacArthur “Genius,” Nelson is known for blurring boundaries and defying genres with such books as “Bluets,” her 2009 collection of prose poems that meditate upon grief, longing and the color blue. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

Dreyer beckons readers by showing that his rules make prose pleasurable. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

From that first breath, “Ping,” a setting of a prose text by Beckett, progressed with the ominousness of a cast spell. Review: A Trio of Micro-Operas in the East Village 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Stone Soup Theatre dramatizes the beloved prose poem. Seattle-area theaters deck the stages with festive productions 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z

Instead, I’d opt for books that through their prose, ideas or storytelling, trigger in me a deep sense of contentment and well-being. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

But airplane food gets the job done, too, and airplane food — bland and damp — is what Mr. Kaku’s prose too often resembles. Books of The Times: What to Expect: X-Ray Vision, Doubled Life Spans and Lots of Robots 2011-03-15T20:57:36Z

She's funny and self-deprecating, with looks that convey "the same undemonstrative confidence" as her prose. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked – review 2013-02-07T07:00:01Z

It's not that Follett's prose style is particularly brilliant; he doesn't indulge in high flights of literary artistry. 'Fall of Giants': Ken Follett's suspenseful epic of five families in the 20th century 2010-09-24T20:21:00Z

In lush prose that felt determined to sprout off the page, the novel described a poor African American family struck by Hurricane Katrina. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Throughout the book, rogue blocks of prose erupt similarly, printed vertically or aslant, in circles, rectangles or triangles. Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell - review 2012-05-25T21:55:06Z

Their brief correspondence arose from this esteem for her prose and poetry. Personal Canons, Foster Care and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

And at certain points, “The Birthmark” crosses a threshold where the logic of the prose really loosens, and the grammatical constructions of prose are suspended. Where does music end and poetry begin? David Grubbs wrote his first poem to find out 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The prose is not always as crisp as it should be. Alfred Hitchcock: ‘A superb fantasist of fear’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

His prose in “On Fire” is fresh, light on its feet, ready for anything. ‘On Fire’ Makes Bad Habits Sound Very Sweet 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

In opulent, slightly antique prose that suggests Smith’s parallel career as a poet, “Ginny Gall” portrays a region infected with the presumption of black depravity and violence. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Wroe's might be seen as an attempt to emulate in glowing, rhapsodic prose the arc of Rilke's transcendent poetic achievement. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z

My prose these days is a lot leaner. Book auction to shine light on the secrets of quidditch 2013-05-17T21:30:48Z

Partly, it may be the seeming plainness of her prose, which means it's easy for all sorts of readers to pour themselves into her sentences and her worlds, identify with her way of seeing. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

More surprisingly, in more than one essay, Sebald expresses a preference for prose that is, in a way, disposable. Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z

They had formidable egos and captivating prose styles and strong, often unpredictable opinions. Review: ‘Emotional Rescue’ Ruminates on Life and Music 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

Bear with the antique prose for a mind-blowingly modern story line. A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

To behold those lines for the first time was to see language unaccountably capturing emotions in a way unfamiliar in recent American prose. Denis Johnson’s Death-Infused Last Stories 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

It's written in a plain, sometimes coarse prose befitting some of the hard-boiled characters Sizemore brought to life on screen. Sizemore book details actor's battle with drugs 2013-04-29T13:40:09Z

In newspapers, cartoons squat like gargoyles on top of the columns, and while you nibble your way through the columnists' prose for several minutes, you swallow the cartoon whole in seconds. Scarfe's Netanyahu cartoon was offensive? Hurrah 2013-01-29T18:30:02Z

Her realistic prose and naturalistic characters eventually clash with the melodrama that overtakes the plot. Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

“His prose is crystal clear and resonant,” she said. French author Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize for literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Joseph Kerman, an eminent musicologist who modernized a field he had found insular and stagnant, challenging conventional wisdom with colorful, pungent prose, died on March 17 in Berkeley, Calif. He was 89. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z

She says, “I’m a vagabond at heart,” but her prose is more ascetic than her living quarters. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Johnson’s smart, witty prose keeps the novel from toppling into parody even as it satirizes corporate greed. Best science fiction and fantasy for February 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Her prose is sharp, incisive and often very funny. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Written in prose of extraordinary elegance and force, it bridges East and West, past and present, with a story of guilt and heroism.” Richard Flanagan Wins Man Booker Prize 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Things don't improve much when Eagleton, discussing Evelyn Waugh, praises the "honesty" of his prose. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z

“Hemingway reinvented modern American prose and the short story. His best work is deeply moving and rich in meaning and psychological complexity,” Eby, who is a professor of English at Appalachian State University, said. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Heaton described the manuscripts as short pieces, some in verse and some in prose, that are comic and written in a strange language of puns and word play. John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

For that reason, her sparse prose often resembles poetry. ‘The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,’ by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

“A Ghost in the Throat” is her first book in prose. One Irish Poet Looks Back Three Centuries to Find Obsession and Inspiration in Another 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Thomas had published two dozen prose books and written almost 2,000 reviews, but he had still to write his first poem. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

Let’s venture southward into the prose and see what we find: Ah, Mr. Simon says the general should not have resigned because he’s involved in a sex scandal. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z

For a production in London the next year Miller revised and expanded the play, changing it to prose and adding psychological details, particularly about Eddie’s relationship to his wife, Beatrice. 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z

What Walvin adds to this literature is accessible prose and a more expansive view that focuses on the contemporary moment and, especially, the public health implications of a world addicted to sugar. How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

When you write a storm in prose, you do everything. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z

As moving as any page of “The Enormous Room” is a prose statement, “Armistice,” that Cummings wrote five years after the novel’s publication. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Despite a translation that struggles to render the tautness and lyricism of Andras’s prose, the intensity of both Iveton’s principles and the political moment he’s embroiled in still manages to shine through. He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

They are accessible yet can quickly offer the sense of remove that will make prose flow. Want to Get Into an Artists’ Retreat? Go as a Tourist 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But is it possible that the prose novel is not the best vehicle for this kind of project? The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech - review 2012-12-21T22:55:04Z

But Greenwell began to write prose, and, he said, “it destroyed my poems.” Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Zelda writes in direct yet passionate prose, Fitzgerald with a poetic flair reminiscent of his fiction. Review | Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own words 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Readers will feel buoyed by the energetic prose, and by the warm depictions of the female friendships that carried Díaz through some of her most difficult moments. Read Your Way Through Miami 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Theologian Walter Brueggemann argues that such visionary artists "subvert the 'managed prose' offered by the dominant culture". William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z

When reading a Joshua Ferris novel, it is best to suspend disbelief at the unlikely narrative and relax into his geek-smart prose and wry humour. Looking for a place called hope 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

I lowered my sights and pointed out that, purple prose aside, not once in 30-odd pages did he ever have this woman think about her breasts. My literary nemesis 2012-07-26T18:57:00Z

Ms. Pomerantz wrote 35 children’s books, some in prose, some in verse. Charlotte Pomerantz, Inventive Children’s Book Author, Dies at 92 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

She also eschews the self-flagellating ethic of some courses by preaching tolerance for fancy prose style, and exhorts her readers to be ambitious and "ask important questions" with their fiction, an admirable stand. Monkeys With Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas – review 2012-10-13T23:05:32Z

With its incantatory prose, “Freshwater” disrupted conventional ways of thinking, pushing readers outside the dualistic frameworks of body and spirit, male and female, psychotic and sane. Review | Like ‘Freshwater,’ Akwaeke Emezi’s new novel, ‘The Death of Vivek Oji’ explores lives outside society’s expectations 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ackroyd published two books of poetry, and then, in 1976, his first prose work, “Notes for a New Culture: an Essay on Modernism.” | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z

But when he reads Pinter’s poems, as well as the odd prose piece, you feel the playwright’s presence. Theater Review: ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter,’ Directed by John Malkovich 2012-10-17T02:00:10Z

Bacon's aperçus are as hard to match in critical prose as are the paintings themselves, with their swerves and elisions, their smeary frustration of interpretations based glibly on "grim" subject matter. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z

In this the prose sometimes recalls the precise movements of the drunkard anxious not to seem drunk. The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey by Lawrence Osborne – review 2013-03-24T09:00:04Z

It doesn’t make any sense, but Ms. Roth’s prose style is good enough and Tris appealing enough that, at least in the book, it’s easy to breeze past the plot holes. Movie Review: In ‘Divergent,’ Jolted Awake by Fear and Romance 2014-03-20T14:31:38Z

It’s a big ongoing saga, made newly comprehensible here with the latest research, clear prose and lots of pictures. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The genius of Burns’s prose is how boldly it goes for broke, in sync with the breakdowns occurring within the minds of her characters. A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Hannah transmuted Faulkner's gothic prose into darkly comic, free-flowing, postmodern romps, often parodying the author's own scenes, as if all this southern drama was not meant to be taken that seriously. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z

And, finally, a compliment from the literary agent Virginia Kidd: “You write the kind of prose that I lick up like cream — were I a cat.” Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Its prose accretes the oracular weight of a holy text as it evokes the genesis of Little Boy’s lonely consciousness, and it exempts itself from pedestrian laws of punctuation to support the versifying rhythm. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Treisman first read the story several months before its publication and said it was not Ms. Roupenian’s naturalistic prose that attracted her so much as her deft use of detail. ‘Cat Person’ Author, Kristen Roupenian, Gets 7-Figure Book Deal 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Yet what with its tattered plot and its often over-heated prose, this is a novel that has a lot against it. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z

Its visual prose resembles a mass-market novel with the punctuation removed. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

It's also lucid, articulate, strong, and witty as she talks of how prose allows you to include more of the detailed experience of life, those "toothbrushes" you can't put into poety. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Young readers would do well to learn his story of a childhood set against a historically racist backdrop, told in clear and unmuddled prose. Review | George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

To prepare to write a play, Kushner spends the morning browsing the Wikipedia, then dashes off the play in the afternoon, stuffing every irrelevant issue into his overwrought prose. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Well, sort of new: Bridging the 1580s and the 1980s, the show’s plot is based on Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th-century prose poem “The Arcadia.” How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

First, the prose is often dull and pedestrian. Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z

Aira’s day is as punctuated by reading as it is by meals: periodicals in the morning, prose in the afternoon, and, in the evening, poetry. César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Henry James captured “felt life” in exquisite prose. ‘Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,’ by William Wellman Jr. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, even Kilmer's mad prose cannot make "Blood Out" worth watching even if it's the last movie left in the Redbox at 2 a.m. and you're drunk enough to consider renting it. Val Kilmer's dramatic decline 2011-04-30T15:01:00Z

Some of them are less narratives than brief, illustrated prose poems. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The only problem with the meticulousness of White’s every-statement-backed-up-with-evidence-approach is that the prose can get very wooden, like a police report. The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stone’s lush compositions and suave camera movements may surprise — and maybe offend — fans of Mr. Winslow’s lean, flinty prose, but the sumptuousness of the movie is among its chief delights. | 'Savages': Review: ‘Savages,’ Oliver Stone’s Adaptation of Don Winslow’s Novel 2012-07-05T16:02:31Z

“Elizabeth goes to some lengths to retain the density of Tacitus’s prose and his celebrated brevity,” Philo wrote. Elizabeth I revealed as the translator of Tacitus into English 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the show’s second half, Prudencia discovers the hypnotic, perversely sensual landscape of life after life and the respective powers of poetry and prose. Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

His waspish wit can make him entertaining company at a party, but there is little evidence of that in his largely turgid prose. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

This knowing quality, registered in the tone of his prose, permeates the essays. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

“The Secret City is re-engaging with the notion of sacredness in the theater, which is all but lost in the ordinary prose of the industry that’s all around us,” he said. Sort of a Salon, Sort of a Church 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

The other way can be mistaken for what we usually call poetry — although a novel that is closer to poetry than prose would be deadly, I think. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The style of prose makes me feel like I’m talking to a good friend. Samantha Bee Stays Grounded With ‘The Great British Bake Off’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

It is the rhythm of prose that hits the reader's nervous system, and all the more powerfully for being buried in silence, or disguised as silence. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

Makumbi neither preaches nor condescends, but with beautiful and subtle prose successfully captures the reader’s imagination. Set in Uganda, This Coming-of-Age Story Contains Universal Themes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

It is a sustained prose poem, very moving in its effect. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

Every page of “Take This Man” contains, in deftly agitated prose, a duet between a depleted spirit and the grandiosity of daily life — well, at least the life of Brando Skyhorse. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous

An essay in the catalogue, riddled with artsy junk prose, suggests that this is all about contemporary systems theories, cybernetics, and the breaking down of binary oppositions “between internal and external, tangible and ephemeral.” Perspective | An exhibition of the beloved Kusama with everything but Kusama herself 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Poet and novelist Caoilinn Hughes wrote in Granta last year that “when poets turn their hands to prose, those hands might well belong to Midas.” Review | A violent police raid leads to a casualty — and a meditation on racism in America 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

His sense of poetry imbued with the heaviness of history, that was the first time that I ever was just really knocked down on a prose level. The National Book Foundation singles out the five best young writers in America 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

But in its wholly original, quasi-poetic prose style that shifts between memory, the hospitalised present and Josie’s hallucinations, this is a book that eschews the cliches and, in doing so, touches a wider truth. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

This book is not psychological realism but more like a very physical prose, describing the characters’ body reactions in their interference with the world. Talking with Naja Marie Aidt about her short story collection 'Baboon' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The poet and New York Times critic Maya Phillips’s breezy, personal, engaging first book of prose is not a study of nerds, nor a look at their history. What Even Is a Nerd Anymore? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Most great prose writers make the real world seem realer — it’s why we read great prose writers. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Written in a graceful, lucid prose style, with a strong narrative line, his books appealed to the general reader as well as historians. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

“On every page, Lodato’s prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit.” Paperback Row 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The biographer’s unintrusive everyday prose is unseen and unheard; yet under Bailey’s strong light what remains on the page is one writer’s life as it was lived, and — almost — as it was felt. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Readers learn about the cat’s life — a romance that bloomed while preying on a deer, a violent and traumatic paternal relationship — in fragmented, inventive prose. 9 New Books Coming in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Larson steeps himself in facts, but he seems to model his narrative arcs and prose style on fiction. Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

This sense of mastery carries over into Mr. Kolker’s lean but ductile prose. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z

He was elegant as a cat, darkly handsome, unboreable, curious, fearless, fortunate, blessed with a near-eidetic memory, and surely one of the great English prose stylists of his generation. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

Delillo has a signature prose style, language intelligent and abrupt, choppy, atomizing philosophies and ideas. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Written in a style that is the prose equivalent of a Dorothea Lange photograph, it is, as much as anything, a coming-of-age story. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-11-23T08:00:02Z

Any shadow of preciousness is quickly dispelled by the clarity of Krivak’s prose and the precision with which he delineates the girl’s struggles during a bitter winter when she is once again alone. Review | Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ takes a gentler approach to post-apocalyptic fiction 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Vann's provocative prose is filled with a sense of wonder and beauty, even when the lives he describes are tragic. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her gift is to create in prose the landscapes and moods which Thomas captured in his poems. Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-05T17:41:14Z

In an autobiographical prose poem in her 2005 collection, “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil,” Ms. Wright wrote about her vocation with the wanton verblessness to which perhaps only a poet is entitled. C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

That is, Mr. Bowman’s prose is well groomed, handsome, hale and hardy; you would probably allow your daughter to date it. Books of The Times: ?The Mormon People,? Matthew Bowman?s Timely Church History ? Review 2012-01-24T18:40:40Z

Like the accompanying images provided by Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo, McClanahan’s prose is intoxicating, taking care to detail magnificent anecdotes from Johnston’s life while simultaneously shedding light on ineffable notions like culture, psychology and fame. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

As Humbert confesses, “You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.” How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Like his music, his prose is made up of simple components — plain, honest sentences that work their magic cumulatively. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

“Gaffney has a breathtaking and at times nearly otherworldly ability to read horses by closely studying their bodies, and then to capture what she sees with her prose,” Jessica Lustig writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric," a series of prose poems on the manifold ways racism manifests itself in contemporary society and burrows into black consciousness, glides down its own lyrical path with beguiling confidence. 'Citizen: An American Lyric' meditates on the trauma of racism 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

“I imagined long, silent afternoons in spotless rooms, typing clean lines of prose while the baby napped beatifically in a sunbeam,” she recalls. Domestic Confidential: What Happens When a New Mother’s Home Becomes a ‘Job Site’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

But I think that push is not the need for fantasy, but a familiarity with the fantasy - also with melancholy: the color of dusk, night, death and separation are dominant in the prose. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

This elegant coffee table book, written by Arnold Aronson, pays tribute in prose and photographs to his singular career. Holiday gift ideas for theater lovers 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Reviewing the book, Nathalia Holt writes that “O’Brien’s prose reverberates with fiery crashes, then stings with the tragedy of lives lost in the cockpit and sometimes, equally heartbreakingly, on the ground.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z