Karen Russell
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The Wunderkind Novel, Two Decades Later March 13, 2025
The heroine of Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote—her second—is a plucky teenage girl intent on excelling at a practice typically reserved for boys. This historical novel set in 1935 Nebraska also features a woman with the power to extract peopl...
Karen Russell Is Resisting Despair February 13, 2023
Picture this: at The Night Falls, a roadside tourist attraction built around a mysterious grotto in the Florida wilderness, a trio of Sirens lure tourists to the water’s edge with their “dangerously beautiful music.” All across America, their song sp...
