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The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” | The New Yorker

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The author invests a scholarly project—that of expanding fiction’s formal possibilities—with erotic promise, a sense of liberation.

Save this story Save this story The author Jane Alison invests a scholarly project—that of expanding fiction’s formal possibilities—with erotic promise, a sense of liberation. Photograph by Mary Motley Kalergis I was in the seventh grade when Jane Alison’s début novel, “ The Love-Artist ,” fell into my hands, and its effect on me was like a full-body blush. The book, which imagines an answer to the mystery of why Ovid was exiled to the edge of the Black Sea, in 8 A.D., stars a witch whom Ovid first glimpses rising from a pool in strands of water and wild grass. Everything is sensuous. Flowers

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