In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney. Before You Get Started Learn More About ‘Intermezzo’ Book Club Conversation Space: Main Discussion Book Club ...

Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to one another. After all, it’s not like the two brothers are even friends. Peter, the eldest ...

The tragedy, of course, is that little truly separates the two. Though they only meet three times during the novel, the reader knows what they cannot: that each brother loves the other, but language ...

INTERMEZZO. By Sally Rooney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 464 pages. $29. Sally Rooney is an emotionally daring writer who takes that Victorian standby, the intersection of love and social class, and ...

This post was updated Sept. 25 at 11:04 p.m. In a literary game of chess, Sally Rooney deftly achieves an expected checkmate, yet not without facing several stalemates in the process. Hitting ...

Of all the relationships open to the novel to explore—love affairs, marriages, friendships, rivalries, parents and children—the relationships that exist among siblings have similarities that combine ...

Sometimes in Intermezzo, as in Sally Rooney’s previous work, characters elide what they know or feel to be true with one of the following phrases: “Whatever”, “Hm”, “Mm”, “Cool”, “I don’t know”. In ...

Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to one another. After all, it’s not like the two brothers are even friends. Peter, the eldest ...

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Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to one another. After all, it’s not like the two brothers are even friends. Peter, the eldest ...