Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

IDA — Gerfrude Stein — Random House ($2).Most readers require of prose that it make concrete sense as they think sense should be made. So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of ...

The poet Anne Carson has said that if “prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.” Everett has always seemed to be on fire in his best novels. He can seem less so ...