Posts by: Lisa Mullenneaux

Juntas and Housewives: Three Books from Brazil

Jun, 2019 | by

Brazil’s “ghosts” refuse to stay buried in these three novels.

Becoming Visible: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone

Oct, 2018 | by

Very little in Jenny Erpenbeck’s previous fiction—allegorical, timeless—prepares a reader for the immediacy and moral heft of Go, Went, Gone. It asks the same question Michael Ignatieff did in his…

Can You Call Her Sister? Amelia Rosselli on Sylvia Plath

Aug, 2018 | by

When the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli took her life 33 years to the day that Sylvia Plath did the same, it was not her only tribute to the American writer,…