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Making sense of the past in Antiquities - The Boston Globe

Making sense of the past in ‘Antiquities’ A new Cynthia Ozick novel looks back By Anthony Domestico Globe Correspondent,Updated April 15, 2021, 4:55 p.m. Email to a Friend blackchooks - stock.adobe.com In a story from Cynthia Ozick’s 2008 collection “Dictation,” an aging actor recognizes that he still has one strength left: “His voice he knew passed muster: it was like a yo-yo, he could command it to tighten or stretch, to torque or lift.” Ozick, who turns ninety-three on April 17, remains similarly in command of voice and its modulation. She can sing and she can rant; she can praise and she can castigate. (In 2016, she responded to a negative review with a poem. It opens, “Zoë Heller / kicked me down her cellar / (a lit’ry penitentiary) / for being so ‘midcentury.’”) In essays, stories, and novels, Ozick writes of the mind’s “persistent internal hum,” and her sentences match this hum’s pitch and

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