THE NEW JERUSALEM

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The List #23: The American Heart

The List #23: The American Heart

A New Language for a New Nation

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Andrew Klavan
Jun 28, 2024
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This is no country for great novels. The novel form peaked in Europe in the 19th and early 20th’s centuries. It thrived in old homogeneous cultures, where a word, a gesture, even a table setting could convey meanings that placed every interchange in a context larger than itself.

The U.S., a nation of mutts and continual reinvention, never held still long enough to let a writer capture it fully on the page.

Still, there have been some wonderful novels written here.

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