Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies (2011)

2020-05-21T16:09:38-04:00

It's 1952, in the hottest summer that Paris has had since before the war. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012 Beatrice writes to her brother, Marvin, saying "Paris was terrible", and she has little else to report. She has travelled there, at Marvin's request, to look for Marvin's

Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies (2011)2020-05-21T16:09:38-04:00

Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011)

2020-10-22T12:27:00-04:00

Of course there are readers who gravitate towards fiction set in ancient times, with their battered Mary Renault and Robert Graves paperbacks, their beloved Rosemary Sutcliffe childhood favourites still lining their shelves. Harper Collins, 2012 But just as there were many readers who would never pick up a western but

Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011)2020-10-22T12:27:00-04:00

The Guardians of Childhood: Three Volumes

2014-03-17T13:30:16-04:00

Simon & Schuster, 2011 Just as in the Harry Potter stories, the William Joyce tales begin with a younger reader in mind and, then, as the pages turn, both child and story grow. The first volume, The Man in the Moon, scarcely seems to be in the same

The Guardians of Childhood: Three Volumes2014-03-17T13:30:16-04:00

A Literary Three-Way: About a Boy? (I)

2014-03-15T20:13:12-04:00

In eleventh-grade English class, we studied "Oedipus Rex" and I fell in love with the idea that a story so old could still be compelling. But the idea of reading these classic texts outside a classroom seemed unthinkable. You know how some books become all-the-more intimidating the longer you leave

A Literary Three-Way: About a Boy? (I)2014-03-15T20:13:12-04:00

The Wind Done Gone (2001)

2021-02-01T16:13:44-05:00

When Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind that the Margaret Mitchell Estate authorized, was published in 1991, the world of books was abuzz. Nobody had heard of Alexandra Ripley, but everybody wanted to know what happened to Scarlett. Somehow I missed news of the publication of Alice Randall's

The Wind Done Gone (2001)2021-02-01T16:13:44-05:00
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