That according to the Times reviewer who called it “the work of a well informed and imaginative philosopher.” Philosophy alone can put people to sleep, especially those who’ve succumbed to the bows and arrows of a certain trilogy/mega movie. But for those with an interest in religion, science, and evolution there’s gold to be mined. Okay, tin, if...
READ MOREA piece by Elaine Blair suggests they most definitely are. Instead of John Waynes we have Woody Allens leading the charge, men who feel unloved and unlovable. Like this character from Sam Lipsyte’s “Home Land” whose social contacts are maintained by writing updates in his high school alumnus newsletter: I rent some rooms in a house near the depot. I...
READ MORETo quote a cliche, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” The beholders here write from the same newspaper. One saying this novel brings to mind “Atonement” and “The English Patient.” The other saying that this novel is, in his words, “A mixed bag. Passages of haunting elegance alternate with episodes of cringe inducing...
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The life of a young man, John Howard, at times heroic, at times comic,a person who tries, in the small ways he can, to make his life better.
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