Mark McGurl on Gothicka by Victoria Nelson
“Dark Times: On the 21st Century Gothic”
September 22nd, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Hillary Kelly on Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb
“Dickens’s Actual Children: On Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations"”
December 23rd, 2012
Leah Larson on Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
“More Than Just a Place to Stop for Gas”
October 24th, 2012
Laurie Winer on Gulp by Mary Roach
“"The Pie Hole Is Mine": Mary Roach's "Gulp"”
April 14th, 2013
D. Charles Whitney on Half Empty by David Rakoff
July 22nd, 2011
McKenzie Wark on Happy Moscow by Andrey Platonov
“A More Interesting Grief: On Andrey Platonov”
January 11th, 2013
Adam Plunkett on Harm and Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys by Hillary Gravendyk and D.A. Powell
February 22nd, 2012
Jillian Keenan on Harvard Square by André Aciman
“The Privileges of Memory: On André Aciman’s "Harvard Square"”
April 10th, 2013
Cullen Gallagher on Headstone by Ken Bruen
“The Criminal Kind: Ken Bruen”
March 22nd, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Hell on Church Street by Jake Hinkson
January 23rd, 2012
Steven G. Kellman on Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson
January 17th, 2012
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