Claire Messud’s New Novel Is a Masterpiece

In a 2021 New York Times essayJonathan Lee probed the resurgence of the historical novel untethered from conventions of genre — a vital and groundbreaking form, more than just a dutiful recreation of the past. As he observed: "Perhaps it has its roots in another phenomenon: The present has rarely felt as transitory as it does now."

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