In 1992, Jill Johnston wrote for the Book Review about Robert Bly’s 1990 book “Iron John,” in which he analyzed classic fairy tales and applied them to 20th-century masculinity.
In 1992, Jill Johnston wrote for the Book Review about Richard Bly’s 1990 book “Iron John,” in which he analyzed classic fairy tales and applied them to 20th-century masculinity.
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column stalks a lonely shop clerk in Norway, an almost kidnapped California bank clerk and a jittery Manhattan apartment sitter.
The story behind sea glass, a walrus who helps you learn to swim, a cat and a dog on the run, and more in books from Cori Doerrfeld, Calef Brown and others.
“A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.”
The British author, whose latest novel is “Reasons to Be Cheerful,” says that “fictional animals were fundamental to my early reading and continue to score high, emotionally.”
“The Vexations,” a debut by Caitlin Horrocks, places the avant-garde composer within the colorful world of fin-de-siècle Paris and at the center of a family drama.
