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Critical Essay by Carol Booth Olson
A. G. Mojtabai opens Mundome with an image of dissolution and decay. The landscape she describes—like those of Pynchon, Barth, and Barthelme—is in the...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
It is clear that "A Stopping Place," by A. G. Mojtabai, is a tragic comedy of cultures. (p. 558)
[The author] who lived for several years in Iran and Pa...
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Critical Essay by Julian Moynahan
A. G. Mojtabai made her literary debut in 1974 with "Mundome," an extraordinary, poetic novel…. This first novel was a dark, modern-gothic book, ...
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Critical Essay by Daphne Merkin
A. G. Mojtabai is one of those dolorously polished writers—F. Scott Fitzgerald was another—whose prose has the quality of fractured light, playing over th...
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Critical Essay by Benjamin Demott
["Autumn"] speaks with force and clarity to the [unease of loneliness]…. A short, quiet-voiced tale, it describes a few days in the life of a rec...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
[Autumn is] a remarkable novel: brief, luminous, intense, unexpectedly humorous. Without a trace of sentimentality, employing no false epiphanies, [Mojtabai] moves W...
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Critical Essay by John Lownsbrough
Autumn is essentially an interior monologue—Ross's impressions recorded as they are felt over the course of several days. On occasion Ross seems poised...
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Critical Essay by Victoria Middleton
In Autumn, Will Ross tells his own story in the first-person ramble of a widower making up for lost words…. He wants, without wholly understanding why, to s...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Schwartz
Autumn is a shy novel, its brevity a sign that it does not wish to call itself too insistently to our attention. Its shortness is also an indication of Miss Mojtabai&...
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Critical Essay by Carol Booth Olson
