On Histories and Stories

reviewed by Jacqueline McGrath

Originally published on September 1, 2001

I first encountered the novels of A.S. Byatt in a British Literature survey I took to fulfill a degree requirement in college. When the professor assigned Possession, Byatt’s 1990 Booker Prize winner, she did so with an apologia to the class for its bulk, but beseeched us to “read it anyway” as she hoped we [...]