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 ...
Dust Bowl memories, and why we need to understand the past to create a healthy future
Russell says she had been thinking about ”fantasy for sale,” as it relates to versions of the American dream, and about the ...
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 ...
Karen Russell’s Dust Bowl ‘Antidote’ is even more ambitious than ‘Swamplandia!’
Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's ...
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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 ...