Archive
Discoveries: Beryl Bainbridge
Discoveries: Dan Fante
A Portis Reader
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
Beyond Disbelief
I kept thinking: what a wonderfully capacious and labile medium poetry provides!
Perfectly Plausible Worlds
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
Choose Your Own Frustration
Illustrated History
On the art of curating comics.
Strange Tales
Time is always shifty in a Fowler story, one of many unstable aspects in her consistent depiction of a mutable reality.
Quotidian Stories
When asked which I might recommend that may have passed readers' notice, I settled on work by Jill Ciment and Jane Gardam.
Paperback Writers: Rudyard Kipling
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.
Language and Monsters
China Miéville is in it for the monsters, and for the philosophy of language, in his latest novel.
Losing Face: Jazmin Darznik’s “The Good Daughter”
Information Technology
Imagined Communities
Poe's adventure tale surrounding the sea voyages of Arthur Gordon Pym and his chance encounter upon Tsalal, a tropical locale near Antarctica.
Family Horserace: Bruce Machart’s “The Wake of Forgiveness”
Machart proves that there is still room on old frontiers, and plenty of fresh paths to take through them.