Love, loss and taxidermy in Lydia Millet's 'Magnificence'

Lydia Millet's "Magnificence" is a novel of ideas. I mean that as a high compliment, for the ideas Millet invokes are the only ones that matter: life, death, love, longing, extinction, the ongoing existential quandary of what we are doing here.

By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic

November 16, 2012