Olga Tokarczuk Takes on the Detective Novel
In her hands, the whodunit becomes a Trojan horse to explore a whole host of concerns, including fate and how one life fits into the world around it.
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A Year in Reading: Gabe Habash
This is delightfully error-ridden writing that squirms and wriggles against the expected and logical, creating its own nonsensical logic in the process.
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Incest and Spouse Swapping: On Iris Murdoch’s ‘A Severed Head’
This delirious little novel is a dirtier, more bizarre study of the messiness of human desire, complete with incest and spouse swapping, and it's arguably the better book.
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