THIS WEEK, Elissa Schappell and Kyle McCarthy consider the influence of Alice Munro in light of her Nobel Prize, and we review two puzzling novels that arrived this fall: J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Lindsay Hill’s Sea of Hooks.

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Honoring 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro

 

 
 

 

 
 

Magical Child, Troubled Child

Roger Bellin on JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus

 
 

 
 

An Upside-Down Diagonal World

Diane Mehta on Lindsay Hill’s Sea of Hooks

 

 

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