Margaret Drabble’s characters want to believe in an ordered world of good citizenship and normal sex. Why are they so inexorably drawn to the sordid and the perverse?
Author Archives: Sarah Cahill
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Reading: The First Throb of Lolita
The Enchanter, Nabokov’s early sketch for Lolita, proves above all how perfectly the master later developed his theme.
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Reading: Erdrich’s Magic Realism
Dreams and strange events wind through The Beet Queen, carrying as much weight as things that “really happen.”