What makes Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, a sprawling political novel by Lydia Millet, so extraordinary is that it succeeds in doing something that's nearly impossible. Through a perfectly…
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Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys
Sep 21, 2024I was attracted to this novel because I had loved The Evening Chorus, Helen Humphreys's 2015 novel about a prisoner of war who maintains his sanity by observing a family of redstarts, a…