Wrong Side of the River
Robert Alter
- River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line by Rachel Havrelock
Chicago, 320 pp, £26.00, December 2011, ISBN 978 0 226 31957 5
Rachel Havrelock’s River Jordan is broad in scope, subtle in interpretive detail and written in lucid prose, with an assured mastery of the relevant scholarship – all the more remarkable because it is her first book. What she has done in effect is to invent a new kind of historical analysis, which I would call cultural cartography, with culture comprising ideology and politics as well as national identity.
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Vol. 34 No. 12 · 21 June 2012 » Robert Alter » Wrong Side of the River
pages 27-28 | 2504 words