In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helprin. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, 703 pages.
Describing everything from a half-hour sitcom to a dismal political failure (or, alas, “fail”) the word “epic” seems to get more work than a left-handed reliever. Yet the vast and varied canon of Western literature hasn’t offered a memorable epic poem for several centuries. Nevertheless, an o
In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helprin
Describing everything from a half-hour sitcom to a dismal political failure (or, alas, “fail”) the word “epic” seems to get more work than a left-handed reliever. Yet the vast and varied canon of Western literature hasn’t offered a memorable epic poem for several centuries. Nevertheless, an o
