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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
MUDWOMAN By Joyce Carol Oates 428 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. Running an Ivy League university isn't all it's cracked up to be, at least not for Meredith Ruth Neukirchen, known as M.R., the protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates's new novel. She's the first woman to be president of an unnamed school in New Jersey, an obvious stand-in for...
CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE; An Intellectual Pas de Deux on the Meaning of Life, Death and Boxing
James Warren writes a column for The Chicago News Cooperative. Imagine going to a karaoke bar and having an academic conference break out. It's almost how I felt last week as a very attractive woman, attired in a tight and very short gray dress, attempted a passionate but amateur rendition of ''Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man'' from ''Show Boat'' in a...
Till Death Do Us Part
I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS By Lily Tuck 193 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $24. The novel opens with a hand growing cold. Nina Hoffman is sitting by the body of her husband, Philip, who has died of heart failure on his bed while she was making supper, boiling new potatoes, taking the chicken out of the oven. In her all-night vigil by his side, her...