Jenifer Berman
By Jenifer Berman
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Culture Writing a Rarity: The Happy Love Story
Accidents By Yael Hedaya Metropolitan Books, 464 pages, $28.00. * * *| In Yael Hedaya’s world, relationships don’t often work out. “Housebroken,” her first book translated into English (Metropolitan Books, 2001), was chockfull of disastrous interactions — a man and woman try to save their broken union by adopting a stray dog; a young woman…
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Culture Seeing Gray in a Black-and-white World Francine Prose Turns the Screws on the Self-righteous
A Changed Man By Francine Prose HarperCollins, 432 pages, $24.95. ——- You’d think that Francine Prose might be losing some steam. After more than a dozen novels and a handful of short fiction and nonfiction works, it would stand to reason that this National Book Award-nominated author might be a prime candidate for writerly malaise,…
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