Tag: Mr. Fox

  • On “Combative Love”: Q and A with Helen Oyeyemi

    On “Combative Love”: Q and A with Helen Oyeyemi

    Helen Oyeyemi’s fourth novel, Mr. Fox, turns a critical eye on literature’s fascination with menacing heroes and imperiled women.  The book takes its name from the fairytale of Mr. Fox, a variant of the Bluebeard story: Lady Mary famously discovers that Mr. Fox, her betrothed, keeps “a room filled with bodies and skeletons of poor dead…