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4 days ago · In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964.
8 hours ago · Strange Relations describes the various ways in which Tennessee Williams. , Carson McCullers, John Cheever and James Baldwin shared “a joint, particular fascination with the idea that sexual ...
5 days ago · Cheever implies that she's a lesbian with a partner named Helen. Joan wants to spend the winter at the summer home with Helen but her father forbids it. Joan is an adult woman in her late 30s asking her father's permission to share the family's vacation home with her (maybe) girlfriend.
20 hours ago · Jul 8 2024. For many men, surviving the test of battle intensifies the joy of being alive. A provocative claim, perhaps, but to novelist Mark Helprin, simply a fact, and one that drives his new book about men who commit themselves fully both to service during wartime and to the women they love. Listen as Helprin tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts ...
20 hours ago · The silence is broken by the sound of metal upon metal as a mailbox is opened and closed. Suddenly, a loud scream rends the air. It is followed by a deep, full-throated sobbing and the soft, raspy sound of paper being shredded. Someone somewhere has just read a review of her novel in the New York Times Book Review, and it is devastating.
5 days ago · Another great storyteller, John Cheever, long associated with The New Yorker magazine, created in his short stories and novels a gallery of memorable eccentrics. He documented the anxieties of upper-middle-class New Yorkers and suburbanites in the relatively tranquil years after World War II.
2 days ago · The book is “When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s” by John Ganz. “When the Clock Broke” is a masterful yoking together of ...
