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“The second is that what mattered most about the gold rush was not the gold but the rush.”
“By refusing the temptation to escape into the fantastic, they resist the very trap that the novel sets for its heroes.”
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“Her Emily is a thrillingly earthbound creature, as individual and ultimately as inaccessible as we all are.”
“Even when Schoenbrun inhabits a monstrous creature caught between dimensions, the effect is devastating.”
“Natalie’s relationship to surrogacy itself evolves as the power dynamic evolves, from one of exploitation to one of respect and consent.”
“Valeri Adam Plantinga on writing gritty, tough-guy protagonists in modern crime fiction October 29, 2026 by Adam Plantinga The Best Reviewed Books of the Week "A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ...”
“To his credit, Philbrick is sensitive to those parts which we usually see inaccurately or not at all.”
“Why Are Women’s Biographies Often Told From a Man’s Point of View?”
“After all, Brontë did not make herself the most approachable author—or person, for that matter.”
“Its premise is plausible enough that reading it induces a specific kind of queasiness, along with an earnest prayer that Elon Musk hasn’t yet seen it and gotten any ideas.”
“Public Access Afterworld is proof of these hard-earned sureties.”
“Historical novels, he tells us, don’t last.”
“However popular and prestigious a historical novel might be in its day, it will almost always get thrown overboard as the ship of literary culture sails on, piled high with novels of contemporary life.”
“Lutz’s book does just that.”
“She has the craft that makes craft invisible, and the art that makes art itself her obsessive subject.”
“Fallow ’s plot twists and turns, and the relationships and friendships Natalie eventually develops, demonstrate how the ethics of surrogacy are not reducible to any one of these narratives, but depend instead on the power relations that define each case.”
“Li herself, of course, has written about the loss of her two sons, Vincent and James, to suicide.”
“Brontë herself, after all, seems to have wanted her readers to know nothing about her, not even her real name.”
“To think we know her or understand her would be reductive.”
“But Natalie is the kind of exception that undoes attempts at making rules.”
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“Major is the word.” –Kevin Power on Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night ( The Guardian ) “At first, I felt resistant to the idea of reading an Emily Brontë biography.”
“A better title for his book would be ‘A History of California, 1848-1878.’ Lest that strike you as dull, consider that those are three of the most thrilling, harrowing, and action-packed decades since the founding of our nation.”