Brenna Katz Clarke
Articles by Brenna Katz Clarke
2020
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World Literature
Ordinary Romance
Anne Tyler’s twenty-third novel is her shortest to date, a concerto rather than a symphony, she has conceded. Her hero, brought up in a chaotic…
2016
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A Room of her Own
In the Hogarth Press’s series of modern adaptations of Shakespeare, Anne Tyler takes on ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, giving us a twenty-first century fairy…
2012
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World Literature
THE END OF DAYS
Barbara Kingsolver presents a story of American rural life in which ecological concern is balanced with a fine feeling for the texture of actual lives.
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World Literature
THE MAGIC’S GONE
JK Rowling's new adult novel has more characters than are good for it. It's also a little difficult to care too much about them.