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Knausgaard and His Time

Jonathan Clarke

Karl Ove ยญKnausgaard treats the stage business of life with gravity, seeking in it, perhaps, some key to the way time slips away from us: โ€œI got up, rinsed my plate at the sink, put it in the dishwasher.โ€ His fiction is...

A Brutal Cosmos

Jonathan Clarke

The Passengerby cormac mccarthyknopf, 400 pages, $30 Stella Maris by cormac mccarthyknopf, 208 pages, $26 Cormac McCarthy seems firmly established as a canonical American novelist, but it may be...