The Art of Dialogue
Dialogue isn’t just about spoken words. What the characters do with their hands and bodies as they speak or while the other person is speaking is just as important as the speech itself.
Read MoreDialogue isn’t just about spoken words. What the characters do with their hands and bodies as they speak or while the other person is speaking is just as important as the speech itself.
Read MoreSittenfeld’s characters are flawed but sympathetic, and readers who feel similarly misunderstood will delight in the humorously awkward situations the characters get into – and must find their way out of.
Read MoreIn 2018, as an international debate over the fate of refugees and the world’s responsibility to them unfolds, Exit West reminds us that “everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
Read MorePerhaps in the end it is our connections with other people, both sexual and platonic, that are most important in our lives.
Read MoreJesmyn Ward is never didactic in her writing; the events she depicts speak for themselves.
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