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Spencer Grayson

Review: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedAugust 12, 2020April 25, 2021

Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel begins with verse, not prose, in a prologue titled “Broken English.” Her narrator Antonia Vega…

Babel Unbuilt: Alan Shapiro’s Against Translation

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019

“Beginning with the fall of towers and ending with the emergence of a new voice, the mastery of Against Translation is clear…”

Reading Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedMarch 25, 2019March 25, 2019

Midterms season is probably not the best time to read an 848-page novel pertaining in no way to your exams, but the mind has curious…

The Tyranny of Memory: Yanagihara in Amsterdam

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedNovember 19, 2018February 29, 2020

Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel A Little Life can be briefly summarized as the story of four college roommates, their enduring friendship and soaring careers, but it…

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