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When We No Longer Believe: On Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place”
Rachel Cusk’s new novel is an uneasy exercise in philosophical abstraction.
Andrew Schenker
Andrew Schenker lives in Upstate New York.
Articles
Wandering Ways
Toward a discursive, essayistic mode of lecturing.
Circling Back to My Failures and Errata: Kate Zambreno’s “Drifts”
Andrew Schenker gets caught in “Drifts,” the new novel from Kate Zambreno.
“Because She Meant God and We Meant Something Else”: On Susan Steinberg’s “Machine”
Andrew Schenker reviews Susan Steinberg’s novel, “Machine,” which dares its readers to find meaning along with its narrator.
A Wonder-Filled Compendium: On Robert Kirk’s “The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies”
A new edition of Robert Kirk’s classic anatomy of fairyland.
A Mind in Transit: Marina Benjamin on Insomnia
A memoir on the liminal state of sleeplessness and “mind wandering.”
The Work of Historical Witness: Józef Czapski’s “Lost Time” and “Inhuman Land”
Andrew Schenker celebrates the recovery of “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp” and “Inhuman Land” by Józef Czapski.
One World into Another
On the seriousness of play and the weirdness of “The Nutcracker.”
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