Articles by Matthew Jakubowski
March 9, 2010
Send in the Drowned: Margriet de Moor’s The Storm 1
The Storm offers engaging historical details about the ocean’s power over Dutch life. There are demure sex scenes and macabre, watery deaths. Its bleakness – joy seems banal in this giddily dark book – is often thrilling. But the omniscient narration is choppy and unsteady.
