“Instead of a sustained narrative, hundreds of snapshots from Alexander’s past are pieced together—though ‘snapshots’ suggests something static, and each of these eye-blink vignettes is animated by yearning and often by cries of desire or despair.”
The Wall Street Journal reviews this month’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: Love and Shame and Love, by Peter Orner. They also review Umberto Eco’s latest, The Prague Cemetary, in which Eco “tried to create the most hateful character in all of fiction.”
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