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Reviews

Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley

By Margaria Fichtner

What should you do when war starts? Visit a friend! Talk! Have sex! [15 February 2007]

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley

By Mikita Brottman

You might argue with her judgments, as I did with her criticism of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but you can't help but sense that hers is the more grounded point of view. [15 November 2006]

The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

By Tim O'Neil

The historian's customary irony is replaced with the assumed fatalism of the Norse themselves, for whom death was a harsh fact of daily existence. The effect is monumental, and carries the burnished authenticity of a long-lost epic. [1 June 2006]