By Jennifer Egan 5/26/03 12:00am

A Man Who Loves His Mate: Rush’s Post-Coital Comedy

Mortals , by Norman Rush. Alfred A. Knopf, 715 pages, $26.95.

To call Ray Finch, the protagonist of Mortals, “uxorious” is to understate the case. Here’s a guy who comes home from work to his wife of many years and muses: “It never changed for him, seeing her again after a day’s separation, or even Read More

By Andrew Goldman 11/15/99 12:00am

Three Beauty Queens in One Apartment

It was early November, the rain was falling in sheets outside of Isabella’s on Columbus Avenue, and Miss Universe wasn’t happy. Mpule Kwelagobe, a quiet and regal 19-year-old from Botswana, was locked in a staring contest of sorts with the waiter, a guy with a grungy rock-and-roll beard, who was ribbing her for ordering a Read More