http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/dirdamichael?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelMichael Dirdaen-us1514020http://www.washingtonpost.comhttp://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gifhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7889-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7889-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT Translation and Its Discontents: A Memoir]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55019-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55019-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy Xavier de Maistre
Translated from the French by Andrew Brown]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35724-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35724-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
By Michael Schmidt. Knopf. 410 pp. $30]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17325-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17325-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT By Steve Stern]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63173-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63173-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT A Memoir by James Laughlin
Edited by Peter Glassgold]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25577-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25577-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy W.G. Sebald. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15610-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15610-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62091-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62091-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy Sam Pickering
Atlantic Monthly. 242 pp. $19.95]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43084-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43084-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy Carlos Fuentes]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25185-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25185-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy John Sutherland. Oxford Univ. 627 pp. $40]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8037-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8037-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT By Tom Holt. Orbit. 474 pp. $22.99 Tom Holt has been writing since the 1970s and has produced some 30 or so novels, even though he was born only in 1961. The precocious son of Hazel Holt, the friend and biographer of Barbara Pym, he brought out a book of...]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54785-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54785-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT By David Riggs. Henry Holt. 411 pp. $30]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21168-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21168-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT By Jeremy Treglown
Random House. 334 pp. $25.95]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6311-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6311-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy V.S. Naipaul
Knopf. 280 pp. $25
Magic Seeds, from Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, isn't much of a novel; the prose is alternately odd and masterful, and the book will puzzle many readers. In particular, the overall aimlessness of the plot provokes restiveness...]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53699-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53699-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT A History of American Childhood
By Steven Mintz. Harvard Univ. 445 pp. $29.95]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30116-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30116-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTThe Bowmen of Shu. Or anything in between.]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11894-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11894-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT 1943-2004
By Richard Wilbur
Harcourt. 585 pp. $35]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61308-2004Nov18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61308-2004Nov18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMTBy Marilynne Robinson
Farrar Straus Giroux. 247 pp. $23]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44007-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44007-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT By Edmund White
Cleis. 360 pp. $24.95]]> Michael Dirdahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26738-2004Nov4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26738-2004Nov4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/dirdamichaelSun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:20 GMT By Tom Wolfe
Farrar Straus Giroux. 676 pp. $28.95]]> Michael Dirda