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Culture March 14, 2020
Nancy
In the opening pages of Chilean author Bruno Lloret’s stifling, slim novel, translated into English by Ellen Jones, Nancy leaves her father and travels to Santa Cruz, where she meets “a stooped old gringo”. Years later, Nancy, now in her 30s, is …
Culture September 21, 2019
A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man
The cultural historian and essayist Maria Tumarkin once described an essay as “a dramatisation of a writer’s mind at work”. Ender Başkan’s A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man, though a novel, takes this dictum as its primary motivating …
Culture January 25, 2020
Such a Fun Age
Emira Tucker is in her mid-20s and about to be kicked off her parents’ health insurance plan. While her friends are all settling into adulthood – going to grad school, getting their first promotions and first offices – she’s treading water at …
Culture June 22, 2019
The White Girl
In critical appraisals of Tony Birch’s fiction, certain adjectives appear again and again. Of the prose: “spare”, “concise”, “uncluttered”; the characters “vivid” and rendered with “compassion”. Perhaps it is true that good novels, …
