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5 Books on the Legacy of War (WSJ)

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The Wall Street Journal invited me to recommend five books on the legacy of war, for its 5 Best column. I wrote about novels by John McGahern, Evie Wyld, Patrick Modiano, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Uzodinma Uweala.

Amongst Women

By John McGahern (1990)

1. The threat of imminent violence hangs over every page of this Irish masterpiece by John McGahern, just as it does over the Moran farm and its “poor fields, littered with rock and gorse.”…

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Yaddo!

What do James Baldwin, Aaron Copeland, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, Milton Avery, Ned Rorem, Carson McCullers…

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Book Groups

I’ve joined the Novel Network, a innovative new venture that connects book groups with authors. On Novel Network, everything…

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