Collision Courses and Castration Anxiety: Rereading John Irving 10

I wondered if I was just too old for John Irving. Or maybe I’d been getting my nineteenth-century novel fix from soapy serials like Mad Men and Downton Abbey. Or maybe John Irving’s books just weren’t as good as they used to be. I decided to find out.

Modern Library Revue: #96 Sophie's Choice 18

There are two main narratives at work in this sad and sensational story: Sophie's Auschwitz horrors, and Stingo's penile travails.

Uniformity and Blandness: Designing the Body of Work 6