Maggie McGowan Maggie McGowan is a member of the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books. Sign up for our newsletter Subscribe to get our newsletter, for the latest reviews, essays and interviews delivered straight to your inbox! Advertisement Writing on Public Books Reviews Our Last Supper “The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild” is a novel that insists on the limits of what fiction can do. Its happy ending, the reader realizes, is no happy ending at all.