“He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eye that’s halfway hopeful.” Prologue: The Triumph of Death (1951) The novel opens with the famous […]
American literature
Libra
“What has become unthinkable is the act not of destruction but of assent.” Part One: The Assassin The novel opens with Lee Harvey Oswald’s troubled childhood, marked by […]
American literature
White Noise
“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation.” Part 1: Waves and Radiation The novel opens with Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at the College-on-the-Hill, […]