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...writing theses which are ostensibly more personal than those of the authors interviewed last week. The stories are set in a suburban town; the novel’s characters are like the author or people she knows. Do these similarities represent shameless and tiresome exploitations of the author??��s experience, or are they simply a means to help the author create a new world that has never been seen before...
...published in Canada as Stalking the Elephant, in reference to Pierre Trudeau’s famous description of Canada’s relation to its behemoth neighbor—fails at every turn to offer new and insightful criticism. The 14 essays, all the result of the author??��s own “travels in the land of guns, god, and corporate gurus,” are not so much petty as just old. The points are made more eloquently elsewhere (usually by Americans), and in the context of Laxer’s Canadian background, they sound particularly...
...group of essays rather than a condensed work. The negative results of this are threefold: overwhelming repetition of the same basic facts; an even more substantial amount of completely irrelevant material; and absence of the actual essay or letters Weinberg is responding to, which often renders the author??��s points utterly useless for lack of context. In fact, for those interested in the meat of author??��s arguments, I advise skipping directly to Chapter 12: “Sokal’s Hoax,” unless one wants to read a circuitous recap...
...quarter of the way through Borrowed Finery, novelist Paula Fox’s new memoir, the author??��s father makes a fitting observation. “People who’ve been parceled out and knocked around,” he says, “are always returning to the past, retracing their steps.” At 78, with six novels and 21 children’s works behind her, Fox is finally lending credence to the statement, offering an elegant, if fragmentary, portrait of her first 20 years...
...about modern American culture? A huge question, to be sure, but a lot of us seem to think that the best commentary will come in fictional form. Out of two of the fall season’s most eagerly anticipated novels, one has been marketed as its internationally-acclaimed author??��s “American novel,” and the other has been frequently, almost carelessly, associated with that portentous label of “Great American Novel.” Salman Rushdie’s Fury is his first novel since he received his new, fatwa...