Van Booy’s new novel, The Illusion of Separateness, reprises this brilliance, with crackerjack storytelling (readers will feel crazy-hungry to know what happens) in language so clean and clear it seems to vibrate.

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Is Sherlock Holmes strong? It’s not just that the answer is ‘of course’, it’s that it’s the wrong question. I hate Strong Female Characters.