La Juive by Elizabeth Dalton Decades later, it’s Madame’s apartment they’ll remember—the light filtering in from the rue de Vaugirard, the fringed lampshades, the piano…
Joyce Carol Oates: Violence in the Head by Elizabeth Dalton In the last several years, Joyce Carol Oates has made a great impression. She has received many awards, including a…
The Four-Gated City, by Doris Lessing by Elizabeth Dalton The intent of Doris Lessing's "Children of Violence," a series of five novels of which "The Four-Gated City" is the…
A Set of Variations, by Frank O’Connor by Elizabeth Dalton The Irish have an insidious gift for making their national failings attractive.
Real People, by Alison Lurie by Elizabeth Dalton The novels of Alison Lurie are almost enough to make one believe in the increasingly dubious notion that reading fiction…
And Other Stories, by John O’Hara; Mosby’s Memoirs, by Saul Bellow; Under the Boardwalk, by Norman Rosten; A House Divided, by S by Elizabeth Dalton It is almost as difficult to generalize about the short story as about the novel, except to say that its…