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Matthew Olshan, The Marshlands, a review

My review of a hauntingly grim and beautiful book, in the tradition of J. M. Coetzee, that reflects the tragic politics of our world through the prism of a story of fairytale-like specificity and universality.

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Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, a review

The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee Reviewed by Ellen Akins Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee, now widely understood to be a reclusive crank, said in a 1983 interview that where everyone sees “bleakness and despair in my books … Continue reading

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