“Let’s complain,” suggests Lucy Ellmann in the preface to this new collection of essays, her first book of nonfiction. In lieu of a Table of Contents, a ‘Table of Discontents’ catalogues…
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At the age of eighty-five, Vivian Gornick feels she still has unfinished business. “The effort required to attain some semblance of an integrated self”, she writes, is “the task of a…
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A master class on the pursuit of the perfect word, from a doyenne of the craft
If a short story is a love affair and a novel is…
The author’s voice emerges loud and clear in a collection of essays that slowly chisel away at the truth
To be “sent to Coventry” is a quaint English expression, of uncertain origin,…