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Toward the end of the novel, Kalfus fictionalizes real world events and departs for global Candyland. All of a sudden, the War on Terror is actually working. Iraq embraces democracy. Syria follows, sans invasion. Marshall and Joyce’s two children, along with children across the globe, wear t-shirts with Saddam’s dead silhouette that read “Death to Terrorists!” As one of Marshall’s co-workers puts it, “Bush is a Bible Belt moron who can’t put together a coherent sentence...
This post-terror world Kalfus portrays is encouraging, but sadly impossible. This perfunctory meditation upon the fragility of national security isn’t explored until the last chapter, giving the novel a sour, discordant aftertaste...
...times, it is hard to tell just where Goodman is going with the novel. The government opens a prolonged investigation into Cliff’s work after Robin provides them with compromising information. Congress is dragged into the fray as well, with members of the lab testifying before a subcommittee...
Allegra S. Goodman ’89 writes about a similar deceit in her novel “Intuition,” which, coincidentally, was published around the same time the Hwang scandal broke out. Setting her story in a lab at the fictitious Philpot Institute in Cambridge, Goodman—whose first book of short stories, “Total Immersion,” was published the year she graduated from Harvard—chronicles the meteoric rise of a young scientist who falls victim to a poisonous cloud of suspicion over his research. While the novel...
Given the integral role that the characters play in the development of the novel, it is somewhat disappointing that they do not live up to the reader’s expectations. While the characters’ quirks are entertaining, it is often difficult to understand or even sympathize with them...