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One Editor’s Love/Hate Relationship with Freedom (By Jonathan Franzen) A review from Editorial Department President Ross Browne

“In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys […]

By |2025-02-11T21:12:14+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on One Editor’s Love/Hate Relationship with Freedom (By Jonathan Franzen) A review from Editorial Department President Ross Browne
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Twilight, A “First 50” Review A review of the first 50 pages of Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

The first 50 pages of Twilight make for what I would call a mildly interesting read.

The novel opens with a preface of a half page in which an unnamed narrator writing in the first person contemplates the fact that she’s about to die, presumably at the hand of an also-unnamed ‘hunter.’ What’s interesting here is that the narrator doesn’t […]

By |2024-01-06T22:40:15+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on Twilight, A “First 50” Review A review of the first 50 pages of Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
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