S. C. Cornell writes about the book “January,” by the Argentinean writer Sara Gallardo, and discusses its place in the history of literature about abortion.
When I met John J. Waters at the Claremont Institute’s Lincoln Fellowship this summer, I was dismayed to hear him mention the impending publication of his first novel. I had nothing against the soft-spoken family man from Omaha; it’s just that years of slogging through unimaginative, MFA workshop-ho.