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The Shift in the Shadow’s Distance: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

Clarity of voice and clarity of detail are at odds in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, a novel that tackles the complicated and desperate lives of a family living in the South in the first part of the twentieth century. The narrators struggle to grasp reality and to make sense of their experiences andContinue reading “The Shift in the Shadow’s Distance: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”

Telling You All About the World: Margaret Atwood’s Good Bones and Simple Murders

Margaret Atwood is the kind of writer who pays very close attention to the world, observing the banal and the comfortable, and writing about it in such a way as to expose what makes the everyday of the Western world really weird and uncomfortable. Atwood deals with the possibilities of the world, the terrifying possibilities,Continue reading “Telling You All About the World: Margaret Atwood’s Good Bones and Simple Murders”