The latest novel from Elizabeth Strout may be named for a man, but at its heart is a woman trying to tell us something about herself. In “Oh William!,” Lucy Barton, the narrator of Strout’s spare, ...

So central and inalienable is the role of trauma in the present-day understanding of personhood that fiction on the subject often seems flatfooted. No longer is it sufficient for a novel simply to ...

Exclamation marks are generally avoided by novelists. The convention, famously set out by Elmore Leonard, is to use no more than two or three of them per 100,000 words, a convention Elizabeth Strout ...

The latest book from Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, once again proves her prowess as a writer of domestic dramas. In Oh William!, she revists the protagonist ...

Oh William! Oh Lucy! Oh marriage! Oh life! Oh god! Elizabeth Strout’s 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Oh William! makes you want to gulp it down – you really do not want to waste any time or ...

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, New York, Random House, 2021, 240 pp. In Oh William! Lucy Barton, a successful writer living in Manhattan, ventures into the family past of her ex-husband William, a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How long does it take to shake an ex? According to Lucy Barton, the heroine of now three books by Elizabeth ...