Fiction chronicle November 2023
Closely examined lives
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On My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket, One Woman Show by Christine Coulson, The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati & The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.
On My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket, One Woman Show by Christine Coulson, The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati & The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.
On Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Civilizations by Laurent Binet & It’s Getting Dark by Peter Stamm.
Constable and Turner, Paul Resika, the Albertine Prize & more from the world of culture.
On Shakespeare’s late plays, autofiction, Notre-Dame redux & more.
On Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason; The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths of Cumberland County, by Mason Ball; 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno; Article 35: A Novel, by Tanguy Viel; and Rock and Roll Is Life, by D. J. Taylor.
On Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates; Kolyma Stories, by Varlam Shalamov; The Kremlin Ball, by Curzio Malaparte, & To the Back of Beyond, by Peter Stamm.
A Nazi’s trial, fictional exile & more from the world of culture.
On Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Autumn by Ali Smith, Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, & I’d Die For You by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
On the works of Elizabeth Jane Howard.