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Knausgaard and His Time
Karl Ove Knausgaard treats the stage business of life with gravity, seeking in it, perhaps, some key to the way time slips away from us: “I got up, rinsed my plate at the sink, put it in the dishwasher.” His fiction is...
A Brutal Cosmos
The Passenger by cormac mccarthy knopf, 400 pages, $30 Stella Maris by cormac mccarthy knopf, 208 pages, $26 Cormac McCarthy seems firmly established as a canonical American novelist, but...
