Michael Crummey

Nov 13, 2024 | canadiangeographic.ca | Michael Crummey

To a casual observer, it might seem a peculiar quirk that Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, Quest, ended its life as a Norwegian sealing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. But the worlds of early polar exploration and the hunting of seals and whales were deeply intertwined. Norway had been sending ships into the White Sea in northern Russia alongside Danish and Russian sealers for decades by the time Shackleton’s last ship, Quest, was launched in 1917.

Apr 7, 2024 | thedailynewsonline.com | Hamilton Cain |Michael Crummey

It likely has something to do with my surname and birth order, but I’ve always felt sympathy for Cain, the dutiful older child whose sacrifice was rejected by Yahweh, that tetchy deity, tipping the farmer into fratricidal fury and dooming him to his own special mark in Judeo-Christian mythology.

Mar 14, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Michael Crummey

“Elias Caines died in late October but the reading of his last will and testament was delayed by the ongoing pestilential outbreak that killed him,” we learn early on in The Adversary.

Feb 17, 2024 | texarkanagazette.com | Michael Crummey

The AdversaryBy: Michael Crummey. Publisher: Doubleday, 336 pages, $29. It likely has something to do with my surname and birth order, but I've always felt sympathy for Cain, the dutiful older child whose sacrifice was rejected by Yahweh, that tetchy deity, tipping the farmer into fratricidal fury and dooming him to his own special mark in Judeo-Christian mythology.

Feb 12, 2024 | daily-tribune.com | Michael Crummey |Hamilton Cain

It likely has something to do with my surname and birth order, but I've always felt sympathy for Cain, the dutiful older child whose sacrifice was rejected by Yahweh, that tetchy deity, tipping the farmer into fratricidal fury and dooming him to his own special mark in Judeo-Christian mythology.