Cynthia Ozick’s Quarrel & Quandary

Asked to name America’s best living novelist, the late David Foster Wallace skipped over the usual heavy-hitters – Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and even Thomas Pynchon – in favor of a celebrated but far less widely-read author: Cynthia […]

Cynthia Ozick’s Heir To The Glimmering World

I found my copy of Cynthia Ozick’s 2004 novel Heir To The Glimmering World at a local library book sale, inconspicuously tucked between romance novels and penny dreadfuls. I had walked in with three dollars in change, enough to buy only […]