Deborah Williams is a clinical professor of liberal studies at NYU and author of The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2023). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Rumpus, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere.
Riverhead, September 2023, 272 pp. Lauren Groff’s new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is a survival story: in the early seventeenth century, a girl flees the starving, disease-ridden settlement at Jamestown, Virginia and makes her way alone through the wilderness. The novel is also a revision of the settlement narratives of
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