Happy Families: Stories by Carlos Fuentes
Did Tolstoy really believe the throw-down challenge with which he began “Anna Karenina”? Are happy families really all alike? Is every unhappy family unhappy in its own way?Carlos Fuentes’s new story collection not only takes its title and epigraph from Tolstoy’s famous opening, but also makes us reconsider the bold [...]
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Happy Families - Stories by Carlos Fuentes - Review
The Believers by Zoë Heller - Review
The Believers: A Novel by Zoë Heller
‘The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.’ So begins Zoë Heller’s third novel, The Believers, with the words of Marxist heavyweight Antonio Gramsci.
It’s a nuanced epigraph for a nuanced tale: an observant and unsentimental family drama that pits rationalism against faith (in numerous [...]
Goldengrove by Francine Prose - Review
Goldengrove: A Novel by Francine Prose
The animating spirit of Francine Prose’s new novel is the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child.” It supplies not only the novel’s title and epigraph but also the names of its central character and of the bookstore her family owns. Characters discuss the verse both [...]
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