Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction ...
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Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint falls on deaf ears, as the novel’s narrator is bewitched by the apparently ...
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In many ways, 'Theory & Practice' is like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel. Author Michelle de Kretser is a beautifully sly writer.