Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait
Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...
The Antidote by Karen Russell — a magical repository of memory gone amiss
A powerful novel set in the Dust Bowl era of America that is packed with secrets, sinister falsehoods and a passionate care ...
How the Wizard of Oz and the Bible influenced Karen Russell’s ‘The Antidote’
In her first novel in 14 years, the author combines real-life historical events with a dose of magical thinking.
Karen Russell on the Books That Made Her Blush, Weep, and ‘Hiccup-Laugh’
The Antidote, which transports readers to the time of the Dust Bowl drought. After five works of fiction that have earned ...
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Karen Russell on Her Witchy Dust Bowl Epic, The Antidote
Early in Portlander Karen Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote, its titular witch is trying on names. Rather than cast spells ...
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Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait
No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors ...