Steven Beattie – Page 95 – That Shakespearean Rag

Muriel Spark’s pitiless treatment of her characters is on full display in the merciless irony of “A Member of the Family.”

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Former Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke provides an incisive critique of pernicious historical acts of racial burlesque.

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In addition to being a sprawling and complex work of fiction, Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport offers a master class in the art of the aphorism.

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In its entirety, Ducks, Newburyport represents a towering fictional edifice that is as engaging and readable as it is formally ambitious.

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