News Source: The Guardian
| 18 days ago
Frida Kahlo, centre, welcomes Leon Trotsky and his wife to Mexico in January 1937. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Barbara Kingsolver's 1998 novel The Poisonwood Bible is often described as a "book club classic" – a double-edged compliment that...
News Source: The New York Times
| 18 days ago
Barbara Kingsolver ’s breathtaking new novel, “Lacuna,” follows this quiet, dreamy boy, Harrison William Shepherd, from 1929 to 1951. When we first meet him, he’s 12 years old, living at a hacienda on Isla Pixol with his self-dramatizing...
News Source: The Guardian
| 19 days ago
Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years takes a huge risk in venturing into copiously charted territory. It moves from the muralists and surrealists of the 1930s in the aftermath of the Mexican revolution to the McCarthyite witch-hunt of...