What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of Engla….

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit a….

McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atoneme….

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination..