A Country Imperfectly Pulling Itself Together
Wildcat Dome’s characters can’t escape the calamities that marked their lives—and their country’s history.

Wildcat Dome’s characters can’t escape the calamities that marked their lives—and their country’s history.
Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.
Making any kind of art can be an obsessive pursuit, but literature is uniquely suited to depicting monomania.