It’s Banned Books Week, everyone! So go to your library and hug the printed word, embrace thought-provoking prose, enjoy that which others have said you shouldn’t, and lovingly caress your copy of…Where’s Waldo? When you think of banned books, a few controversial classics come to mind: Lolita, for example, or provocative new fiction like Fifty Shades of Grey. […]
Donna Tartt’s new novel The Goldfinch begins with Theo Decker recalling the terrorist explosion that killed his mother and resulted in his possession of a Dutch master’s painting. Over the ensuing pages, Theo moves fluidly between families, his grief and trauma failing to lessen as he ages, the painting always by his side as a […]