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Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long before Sebold's attack, another young woman had been killed...

Ryan Gosling could be the Sundance Kid, emerging out of that indie film festival with such gritty dramas as "The Believer," "The United States of Leland" and "Half Nelson," which earned him an Academy Award nomination.In those films, he played a Jewish teen posing as...

It was the "confession" that nobody wanted to read in 2007 — at least until they had the chance to read it.O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It," vilified when first announced a year ago, dropped by HarperCollins, then issued this fall by tiny Beaufort Books,...

Can writing confer immortality? Let’s hope for at least temporary immortality, because the season’s books are crowded with the dead. David Halberstam, Molly Ivins and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., all three of whom died earlier this year, have books coming out this fall: Halberstam’s long-awaited narrative...

In 1957, when Spark was 39 and unknown, someone at the English publisher Hamish Hamilton sent along to a friend at The New Yorker a startling story that had lately been published (in a magazine called Botteghe Oscure) by an unknown called Muriel Spark. "The...

In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Womack uses the framework of family systems theory to examine acts of narrative therapy and the grieving process presented in The Lovely Bones.

In the following essay, Mendelsohn complains that The Lovely Bones suffers from poor-quality writing and has the moral, social, and emotional seriousness of sugary pop songs and TV movies of the week.

In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Eder offers a comparison of The Lovely Bones with Sebold's memoir, Lucky, discussing the novel's characterization, structure, and imaginative perspective.

Explores how Alice Sebold uses her characters in "The Lovely Bones" to explore the effect of a death on a family and how they can rebuild themselves in the aftermath.

Essay provides a literary analysis of "Lovely Bones" written by Alice Sebold.

In the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Jack Salmon does an adequate job of keeping his composure as he suffers the loss of his daughter and wife. Throughout the constant chaos, suffering, and grief felt in the novel, Jack Salmon retains his role more than any other member of the family. Although all members of the family are left to deal with their own personal trauma, Mr. Salmon portrays a true example of a fatherly figure.