Claude Peck

1 month ago | startribune.com | Claude Peck

If all the world's a stage, it must include the 20 hectares of barren, dusty and drought-stricken Malaysian farmland at the center of Tash Aw's sensitively drawn novel "The South." This failing acreage, with its muddy pond and orchard destined for the chainsaw, seems an unlikely setting for a novel, especially one centered on teen angst and the budding of young love.

2 months ago | timesdaily.com | Claude Peck

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Mar 23, 2025 | dailygazette.com | Claude Peck

”The Human Scale” by Lawrence Wright; Knopf (429 pages, $30)Lawrence Wright likes big subjects. Whether in nonfiction or novels, he tackles the 300-pounder fearlessly. kAm%92E H2D ECF6 :? 9:D 6I46==6?E “v@:?8 r=62C[” 2? 6I92FDE:G6=J C6A@CE65 E2<65@H? @7 {] #@? wF332C5 2?5 9:D r9FC49 @7 $4:6?E@=@8J] W#625 :E — J@F H:== ?6G6C 36 23=6 E@ 6?;@J %@> rCF:D6 :? 2 >@G:6 282:?]X “%96 t?5 @7 ~4E@36C” :D 9:D a_a` ?@G6= 23@FE 2 8=@32= A2?56>:4] p?5 96 E24<=65 h^`` :? a__e’D “%96 {@@>:?8 %@H6C[” H9:49 H@?

Mar 19, 2025 | news.lee.net | Claude Peck

Lawrence Wright likes Big Subjects. Whether in nonfiction or novels, he tackles the 300-pounder fearlessly. That was true in his excellent "Going Clear," an exhaustively reported takedown of L. Ron Hubbard and his Church of Scientology. (Read it - you will never be able to enjoy Tom Cruise in a movie again.) "The End of October" is his 2021 novel about a global pandemic. And he tackles 9/11 in 2006's "The Looming Tower," which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Mar 19, 2025 | thebrunswicknews.com | Claude Peck

By Claude Peck, The Minnesota Star Tribune That was true in his excellent "Going Clear," an exhaustively reported takedown of L. Ron Hubbard and his Church of Scientology. (Read it - you will never be able to enjoy Tom Cruise in a movie again.) "The End of October" is his 2021 novel about a global pandemic. And he tackles 9/11 in 2006's "The Looming Tower," which won a Pulitzer Prize.