This week is a celebration of several new milestones: the Man Booker shortlist came out, with Colm Tóibín’s novel, The Testament of Mary, coming in as the shortest nominated book in the prize…
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About the NovelThis is a story of dispossession and a man who wrestled with God: sometimes dispossession…
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Karen Fang is professor of English at the University of Houston and author of the new book Background Artist: The Life and World of Tyrus…
