Middlesex | James Wood
In the following review, Wood praises Eu-genides's talent at "conjuring" an adult voice, with all its language and resource, that is simultaneously that of a child's "excited, receptive, and bolting response to the world."
James Wood
In the following review, Wood praises Eu-genides's talent at "conjuring" an adult voice, with all its language and resource, that is simultaneously that of a child's "excited, receptive, and bolting response to the world."
In his memoir The Noise of Time, Mandelstam recalls a haughty friend who used to say, disdainfully, that "some men are books, others—newspapers." The remark might be adapted. Some books are books, others—newspapers. In recent years, the large American novel has frequently aspired to the condition of journalism. The great...
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