With her debut novel about one girl’s experience as a spelling bee champion, Myla Goldberg explores the unraveling of a family. Bee Season is the story of the Naumanns, a deeply fractured and emotionally stunted family in which no one… Read More ›
psychological fiction
Analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s Clea
Volume four in the series known collectively as The Alexandria Quartet, this novel is once again related from the first-person point of view of Darley, the English writer who narrated the first and second volumes, Justine and Balthazar, respectively. The… Read More ›
Analysis of Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1987, this novel chronicles a father’s tragic loss, his deep grief, and his reconciliation to the world of the living. The protagonist is Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s… Read More ›
Analysis of Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll
Caroline Clive’s popular novel Paul Ferroll was likely published at Clive’s expense, first advertised for sale in Publisher’s Circular. While Clive (1801–73) had published poetry, the novel was her first, and ultimately most successful, attempt at fiction. By March 1856,… Read More ›
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