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“This is not just a family drama: Kingsolver wants you to know she’s writing about the country .”
“… “The problem is not that Title IX is unworthy of fiction.”
“Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, The Radiance, sometimes succumbs to this temptation.”
“In fact, it’s several strange books (an interior title page renames it ‘The Occidental Book[s] of the Dead’), as well as a TV show and a series of confessions and a radio broadcast, all wrapped in one big novel—though ‘a novel’ is crossed out on the cover and title page.”
“… “The Occidental Book of the Dead is an adrenaline-filled high-wire act.”
“Death, once it has decided to capture us, descends with the inevitability of gravity.”
“Its main character is as unpromisingly ordinary as its title suggests, and some may even find him a little boring.”
“But even with occasional misfires, The Occidental Book of the Dead just might be something the literary world needs to see more of: It’s ambitious, creative and, most important of all, unapologetic.”
“… “Placing most of the blame on Patterson here is tempting, as the written word is his domain.”
“Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead , Sam Worley on Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita , and Joe Moran on Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man .”
“Its students arrive morally outraged, a priori puritans, while its professors are enervated and dissatisfied.”
“Readers’ tolerance for the book’s maneuvers will vary.”
“There are undigested chunks of clumsy characterization (‘He wants to help people.”
“This week, though, she quit too.”
“In taking that gamble, the authors cheated fans and missed an opportunity.”
“In essence, The Most Dangerous Games is a gamble that the product doesn’t matter as much as the brand, that consumers buy the sizzle, not the steak.”
“Partita demonstrates what happens to this first-person narrative technique when the personality isn’t there.”
“Akhtar seems aware of the problem but can’t always escape it.”
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“If you haven’t detected the symbolic potential here, dialogue like ‘It’s the state of the union at our house.”
“Considering that both authors are innovators of highly consumable brain rot in different mediums, the book is an old-fashioned dud.”