![]() John Mandel used these lines as an epigraph to her second novel, The Singer’s Gun (2010), a book haunted by 9/11. “We stand in need of something stronger now: the travel book you can read while making your way through this new, alarming world.” ![]() With tanks now standing guard at London’s Heathrow Airport, what was once an ordinary plane trip had acquired “an element of thoroughly unwanted suspense.” The usual reading material, Pye argued, would no longer do. Writing in The New York Times in June 2003, less than two years after the events of September 11 shattered the complacency with which many Americans conducted their lives, the British critic Michael Pye lamented an unlikely casualty of the new era: the ability to occupy ourselves with a superficial novel while sitting in an airport lounge or drifting at 30,000 feet. ![]() Illustration: Paul Spella Sal Alas / Westend61 / Getty ![]()
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The poem can be read as an exhortation for us to behave ourselves, which is a horse of relevance that ought to be ridden.”Īs quoted by Charles McGrath in “Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74” in the New York Times, March 29, 2008. The price of empire is very steep, but Virgil shows how it is to be earned, if it’s to be earned at all. ![]() “It says that if you depart from the civilized, then you become a murderer. Here’s how the classics scholar Robert Fagles summed up The Aeneid: You can express the theme or message of even a complex, multilayered work in a few sentences if you know it well enough. This failing has less to do with dwindling review space and than with declining courage and intellectual confidence. Reviews often tell you almost everything about a novel except what it is really “about” beyond the plot details. ![]() The problem with book reviewing in America isn’t usually that it’s unfair or inaccurate – it’s that it’s dull. ![]() ![]() ![]() How easy it was now to ignore the fact that he had spent most of his adult life avoiding just that. Back to a place where life had once seemed simple. Knew, too, that it wasn’t just Mona he wanted to run away from. ‘Oh, don’t be ridiculous.’ But he knew she was right. ‘And now you’re just jumping at the chance. But Fin soon realises life wasn’t nearly as simple as he thought and going back means he has to confront the long buried details and torments of his troubled past. ![]() ![]() ![]() The victim is Angel Macritchie, the bully from his schooldays.įinn accepts the return to Lewis as an opportunity to put some space between himself and his terrible loss and subsequently failing marriage, by returning to what seemed in retrospect, an easier time. Fin Macleod, a native Lewis man, now a detective living in Edinburgh, is sent back to the island when a murder is discovered in his own village of Crobost, with distinct similarities to the case he’s working on. Set on the Isle of Lewis, the largest island in the Outer Hebridean archipelago off the north-western tip of Scotland, a remote and harsh world where the ancient traditions and way of life are still followed. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past. When a brutal murder on the Isle of Lewis bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. Released on Audible: February 2018 by riverrunĬategory: Murder, Mystery, Crime, Drama, Book Review ![]() |