The stories in Valerie Sayers’s new collection are populated with characters who strive to hang on to something good.
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Review: Women, chronic illness and resurrection
Sarah Ramey in her new book: “My case went unsolved for fourteen years because no one would listen to me and the reason they would not listen to me is because I am a woman.”
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Review: Charlie Kaufman at his most surreal
Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel is not for the faint of heart. But it rewards the effort to read through a story about self-perception and the internal monologues that rattle through all of our heads.
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Curtis Sittenfeld and the art of political fiction
Reality is messier than than fiction that reduces historical figures like Hillary Clinton to the sum of her most oversimplified virtues and vices.
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Review: The significant questions of a creative life
Using familiar methods of interpretation, Christopher Pramuk translates stories that illuminate paths to the transcendent when communicated through the arts.
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Review: Richard Wagner’s immense influence on music (and history)
Few artists in history have found as many devotees as Richard Wagner, for better or for worse.
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Jean Giono’s mirror of the present
Jean Giono’s narrators are often grounded in a kind of eternal present, where the coach will always run and a certain tree will always stand, moving us by degrees into the uneasy past of narrative.
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Review: The life and works of author Robert Stone
In a new biography of Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell argues that Stone’s career involves both the American dream and the search for meaning.
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She was Paris’s most famous courtesan. Then she found God.
For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.
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The must-read novel for quarantine and social distancing is about a 17th-century plague
Published in 2002, ‘Year of Wonders’ is set in a 17th-century English plague town.