An aging High Court judge in Dublin, while presiding over a landmark case involving a young girl whose had an abortion, reveals to the reader the repressed difficult childhood that led him to an adult life of personal estrangement. Colm Toíbín’s second novel (1992): slow, quiet, astonishing.
What do James Baldwin, Aaron Copeland, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, Milton Avery, Ned Rorem, Carson McCullers…
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“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…
