Tom Deignan
Tom Deignan has written about books for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Irish Independent. He teaches at CUNY and is working on a book about religious violence in the 1920s.
Colm Tóibín has done some serious time traveling in his recent novels. House of Names (2017) reimagines the dysfunctional family sagas of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, which were first conjured 2500 years ago by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
Readers of Maria Adelmann’s entertaining, provocative new novel will find it hard to disagree with such sentiments. The Adjunct is a ripped-from-the-headlines dispatch from the front lines of the campus wars.
With a bit of editing, Charleen Hurtubise’s new novel might have read like a fast-paced, Reese Witherspoon optioned thriller, with Jennifer Garner or Jessica Alba attached to a rumored adaptation. Trim some of the big ideas about art.
