Tag: Booker Prize

“At the core of each lay suffering; . . .We must try to see one another in this way.”

A review of “Lincoln in the Bardo” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

This novel, set in the time of Lincoln’s son Willie’s death, is the most challenging book I’ve read in years. Its subject is grim, its list of characters exceeds 100, and its style resembles a play, without … Read More

“She had come to realize that the position of an unmarried, unattached, ageing woman is of not interest whatever to the writer of modern fiction.”

A review of “Quartet in Autumn” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

What should a moderately successful novelist, who didn’t engage readers during the social revolutions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, do to stage a come back? Explore trends? Update her plots? Become provocative? Barbara Pym declined these … Read More