“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

Recent stories of note: “A Novelist Draws”Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review On the island of Guernsey is a home whose owner, it is evident, was fond of excess and whimsy: walls adorned floor to ceiling with china, ceilings fitted with tapestries, ornament and pattern everywhere possible. This is the Hauteville House, the home of Victor Hugo during his exile on the Channel Islands, which is open to the public, as is the author’s equally eccent…