What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal’ was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ and ‘Wonder Boys’ and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ and ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.’ Cathleen Schine Read Quote
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
There are no moral lectures in ‘Lookaway, Lookaway;’ there aren’t even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don’t make dates with them. I don’t have to. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
