Life Is Improv while Keeping Time
Reviewing Prize-Winning Novelist Eugene Vodolazkin’s ‘Brisbane’
I first read Eugene Vodolazkin when many Americans did, following a glowing review of his prize-winning novel, Laurus, in the New Yorker. A story set in medieval Russia with an enigmatic healer and holy fool as the protagonist could go wrong in more ways that anyone would bother counting, but I took the bait.
