A rich read on many levels, but straight-forward and told without ornament. Entirely plausible, I had the feeling not only that it could happen, but that is did or was happening and I was watching it unfold. The characters were marvelous, especially Bess Roth and Mrs. Wishnow and Alvin.
Roth imagines a world where Lindbergh became President in 1940 and then proceded to collaborate with the Nazis. He says this has nothing to do with George Bush, but I found it impossible not think of parallels. Like all late Roth, very nicely written.
I’d been a big fan of Philip Roth since stumbling across Portnoy’s Complaint in college. That book spoke hysterically of the torments of a desire conflicting with one’s upbringing and one’s own better sense. Roth captured so keenly the nature of an almost self-destructive pursuit and the complexitie...
When I wrote my review for China Mieville's The City and the City, I threw out a stray oblique threat to talk about how its central metaphor might say something about fiction. Mieville's conceit is a single physical space that is inhabited by two "separate" cities -- residents of the respective cit...
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