“Lydia Millet’s magnificent new novel, Dinosaurs, highlights our shortcomings in terms of how we treat each other and our environment, and subtly seeks to draw some lessons from the natural world … Millet rel on spare prose that is dense with meaning if the reader wants to think deeper, but otherwise feels simply like edifying naturalist interludes. There’s a depth and a sweetness, a gravity, to Stephen’s simplest observations … Miller’s last novel didn’t make the Booker list, but this restrained, beautifully written apologia for our common frailty surely should.” But the novel’s excellence goes far beyond this. “Bolder and more exquisitely menacing than anything he’s done before … A peculiarly moving account of casual youthful error, and of the hell that such errors can send us to … Miller delineates the details of life in an urban barracks … He conjures the fear and the confusion of being out on patrol … So, what happened in Belfast? What did Stephen do? The revelation, when it comes, is unsensational: a pitiful, inadvertent atrocity, and all the more shocking for that … At the level of the sentence, the writing is near perfect. Leonard Cohen’s A Ballet of Lepers, Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs, and Andrew Miller’s The Slowworm’s Song all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week.īrought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.”

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