Warning: The following review contains spoilers for the final season of HBO’s Succession . IN JESSE ARMSTRONG’S revered and recently concluded Succession , love is weighed down with heavy qualifiers. “I love you,” series patriarch Logan Roy tells his children in what will prove to be his final conversation with them, “but you are not […]
We’re in the realm of myth and magic today, with a novel based on the great epic Beowulf and a novella inspired by a Japanese folk tale. Both books have covers that are among the most beautiful of the season. (Calumet Editions) “Sister of Grendel”: by Susan Thurston (Calumet Editions, $18.99 paperback). I want to […]
Credit…Kimberly Elliott THE EXHIBITIONIST, by Charlotte Mendelson “I prefer stories about squalor,” J.D. Salinger’s Esmé said. Esmé would have gone nuts for “The Exhibitionist,” the fifth novel by the English writer Charlotte Mendelson, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2022. Set in sophisticated if not exactly moneyed quarters of London, with […]
