Shocking and frankly aversive: “A Member of the Family” by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark’s pitiless treatment of her characters is on full display in the merciless irony of “A Member of the Family.”
George Elliott Clarke on the insidious history of Blackface in North America
Former Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke provides an incisive critique of pernicious historical acts of racial burlesque.
Long and short: Ducks, Newburyport and the art of the aphorism
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.
White water rafting along the stream of consciousness: Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport
In its entirety, Ducks, Newburyport represents a towering fictional edifice that is as engaging and readable as it is formally ambitious.
Creating space and finding a voice: on blogging about books in 2019
This is a blog about books and reading.