Cheuse

I am more interested in Cheuse's choice of critical measuring-stick: The Welsh Girl is "one of the best of the winter so far."

Book Reviewing 2010

The encounter with the Other is a fiction staple, and Cheuse follows a well-worn path in depicting a white man discovering a more authentic way of life in a nonwhite society.

Historical Fiction 2010

In the first paragraph of his review of Peter Ho Davies's The Welsh Girl, Alan Cheuse declares that "Sentence by sentence, character by character, scene by scene, it's one of the best of the winter so far."

Book Reviewing 2010

"I'm very proud of her," said Mr. Bennett, while surrounded by the young photographer's work inside the Morrison Gallery Hotel at the Tuesday opening of her exhibit with Josh Cheuse : "Tony Bennett: Portrait of An Artist."

Two Artists Turn 'Duets' Into a Family Affair Liza Ghorbani 2011

In a moment, we'll hear from Philip Roth, but first, Alan Cheuse has a review.

Book Review: Philip Roth's 'Nemesis' 2010

And to that point Cheuse himself has said of this work that he's doing a kind of history in reverse, that "historians usually work from the outside in, and novelists move in the other direction."

Historical Fiction 2010

In a moment, we'll hear from Philip Roth, but first, Alan Cheuse has a review.

Book Review: Philip Roth's 'Nemesis' 2010

Past waiters include novelist Julia Alvarez, National Public Radio's "voice of books" Alan Cheuse and short story writer Amy Hempel.

August 2008 2008

Past waiters include novelist Julia Alvarez, National Public Radio's "voice of books" Alan Cheuse and short story writer Amy Hempel.

Crumbs 2008

And there are further and more poignant ironies: If only the man who spent so much time advocating for the medicinal use of cannabis and the treatment of anxiety, who spoke of the "pharmacopia", had taken legal drugs to regulate his brain chemistry - he might have had that longer professional life Cheuse hoped for Doc.

Tom Teicholz: "DOC" on PBS: The life and fictions of Harold Humes 2009