Carolyn Kellogg

Two miles north of Interstate 10, a cool breeze ruffles the overgrown grass around the Dozier School for Boys.

For decades, the brilliant Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was hidden from American readers by awful translations that erased her dense, challenging prose (think James Joyce).

This collection of short stories includes the fine ‘Frankenwittgenstein,’ ‘Considering the Bittersweet End of Susan Falls’ and uneven others.

There are only two plots in fiction, John Gardner once told us: A man goes on a journey and a stranger comes to town.

If Donald Trump had not swept to power chanting “build the wall,” someone else might well have.

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