The seven-novel sequence, almost 800 pages, is narrated in a stream of consciousness with no sentence breaks, and the namesake-doppelgänger story line isn’t definitively established as an prolonged speculative train or an astounding coincidence (or taciturn act of autofiction). Every novel begins, midthought, the identical means, with Asle reflecting on
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A Vermeer Restoration Reveals a God of Desire
DRESDEN, Germany — After nearly three centuries behind a layer of paint, a naked Cupid has surfaced in one of the world’s best-loved artworks, drastically altering the background of a quiet interior scene. The plump, golden-locked god in Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window,” was revealed
‘No Man of God’ Review: Buddying Up to Bundy
“No Man of God” can’t help but play like the special Ted Bundy episode of “Mindhunter” we haven’t gotten to see yet. The movie, directed by Amber Sealey, dramatizes what it sees as the rapport that developed between Bundy (Luke Kirby) and the F.B.I. profiler Bill Hagmaier (Elijah Wood), who
A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide
But God persists. He prompts Sam to “inhabit your past as you lived it, without knowing the future that will come of it.” Raised in Louisiana by an abusive father and a loving but cowed mother, Sam enlists to fight in World War I when he’s 16. His father helps