Search
Alan Bray
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
The Boat Is Sinking! Bail!
The ending of Now We Shall Be Entirely Free is rather open and ambiguous—to me, at least. It’s quite possible Andrew Miller might read my...
Alan Bray
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
The End of Omniscience
The narrational style of Now We Shall Be Entirely Free shifts from beginning to end. We’ve talked about how, in the beginning, it is...
Alan Bray
- Oct 15, 2020
- 4 min
Shut Up and Read
Literary theorist Roland Barthes developed a distinction in literature between readerly and writerly texts. He believed most texts are...
Alan Bray
- Oct 8, 2020
- 4 min
Sin-Eater
The significance of names in Now We Shall Be Entirely Free should probably be noted. John Lacroix certainly makes one think of the French...
Alan Bray
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Some 'Splaining To Do
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free is a novel written around the year 2018, but the story takes place in the British Isles in 1810 after the...
Alan Bray
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
This week, a new book, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free written by Andrew Miller, published in 2019. I first read it earlier this year,...