Author Louise Dean takes up an audacious challenge in this 2005 novel: using two rotating narrators, one the mother of an imprisoned son in the Maze and the other as a prison guard there, to see The Troubles from either side of the struggle.
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…
