Norman Rush

Norman Rush

Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel.

From the Review

October 25, 2007: Vietnam: Portraits from a Tragedy

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

November 16, 2006: The Devil in Africa

Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo

August 11, 2005: Heart of Darkness

October 7, 2004: The Last Word on Evil

Snakepit by Moses Isegawa

January 16, 2003: Apocalypse When?

The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda

Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

April 20, 1995: The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa (letter)

From New York Review Books

Tropic Moon In Tropic Moon, Simenon, the master of the psychological novel, offers an incomparable picture of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost.