“Only once a decade or so—if that often—does a truly iconic, pivotal fictional character manifest: Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises, Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, Big Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Garp in The World According to Garp, Harry Potter . . . . And we now have the immense pleasure of welcoming into our literary universe the brilliant, hilarious, pathetic, and heroic Barnaby Atlas Fox.”