“Clarity, energy, and humor are indeed part of this dark novel. But hope? Yes, it’s there, too”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Nathan Englander’s latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth.
“A voice may change over time, but fingerprints endure, and Gordon’s mark these new pages”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Mary Gordon’s There Your Heart Lies, published this summer by Pantheon.
“Lucy’s the disturbing stone thrown into a still, dark pond”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, Anything Is Possible.
“Haigh presents no over-simplified white hats and black hats in her story. Instead, Haigh gets inside frackers, locals, and activists alike, finding flawed, warm individuals in all camps.”
“And what a fun read this is”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel about family and money, The Nest.
“Thank you, Louise Erdrich, for heartbreak mitigation”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Erdrich’s latest novel, LaRose.
“The delicious narrative freedom of being in charge of the universe, and then the universe we’ve created takes over”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell talks with Susan Scarf Merrell about her path to writing and her forthcoming novel, The Bowl with Gold Seams.
“There’s also story-telling magic at work in this incantatory book; it sparks resonant memories of stories heard and internalized: once-upon-a-time-stories, fables, fairy tales, and myths, as well as those from Shakespeare and the Bible.”
“Barker creates her story, her vision of world events with emotional as well as factual depth, filing her fictional dispatches from well-researched historical moments in time.”
“With her customary depth, compassion, and wit, Hadley explores the vexations of togetherness and separateness, the puzzle of core individual and family identity.”
