Joseph McElroy

Joseph McElroy is the author of Women and Men (Dalkey Archive), The Letter Left to Me (Knopf), A Smuggler’s Bible and Plus (Carroll & Graf), and other novels. His Actress in the House will be published this month by Overlook Press (April 2003).

FictionApril 3, 2003

Dangerous Liaisons

He says he is not a fighter–or rather, the narrator says it; he’s “an onlooker,” someone who steps aside, “frail,” “not the savior of the world,” not a “prophet,” speaking only to himself, liv

Joseph McElroy
PoliticsOctober 18, 2001

Earth in the Balance

Joseph McElroy
FictionFebruary 16, 2000

Salvation in South Africa

Blessed with a great subject, afflicted with it too, J.M. Coetzee has remade its meanings in the light of metaphor often no further from us than our own bodies.

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Joseph McElroy

FictionApril 3, 2003

He says he is not a fighter–or rather, the narrator says it; he’s “an onlooker,” someone who steps aside, “frail,” “not the savior of the world,” not a “prophet,” speaking only to himself, liv

PoliticsOctober 18, 2001

FictionFebruary 16, 2000

Blessed with a great subject, afflicted with it too, J.M. Coetzee has remade its meanings in the light of metaphor often no further from us than our own bodies.