Month: April 2026
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Speech Marks Blowing in the Wind
Frankissstein (2019) by Jeanette Winterson and The Passenger (2023) by Cormac McCarthy don’t have much in common, except that they’re both entirely devoid of speech marks. Better literary scholars probably have deeper things to say about these two very sophisticated meditations on love, life and death, but having to teach literature to students who sometimes…
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Review: The History of Sound (2024), Ben Shattuck
The History of Sound has a sense of the ephemeral and the historical, of continuity and rupture. It creates a present perpetually haunted by unintelligible echoes of the past, siren calls of blighted archives. The stories are spread over some three centuries of New England history, from the colonial era to the recent past, in…
Sarah Owl Jewett 