Category: Margot Singer

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The Home We Can and Cannot Leave

John Farrell

My review of Margot Singer’s wonderful essay collection, Secret Agent Man. What if our homes help prolong our lives? asks one of Margot Singer’s haunting essays in Secret Agent Man. Even after being away for years, she thinks of her childhood house in Cochituate, Massachusetts, as an anchor and feels comforted to find her parents still embedded… Continue reading The Home We Can and Cannot Leave

The Rhythm of Underground Fugue
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The Rhythm of Underground Fugue

John Farrell

More than halfway into Margot Singer’s engrossing novel Underground Fugue, her main character Esther, a middle aged American woman who has returned to London to look after her dying mother, recalls the circumstances surrounding a one night stand she had before she was married. Just once, she’d hooked up with a stranger. Reckless, yes. She… Continue reading The Rhythm of Underground Fugue