Solenoid

Ben Hooyman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, where he is writing a dissertation on grotesque modernism in early-20th-century Russian literature. He is currently working on several translation projects, including a collection of short stories by Russian horror writer Yuri Mamleev.

Ben Hooyman

A Romanian Daedalus’ Surrealist Labyrinth: On Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Solenoid”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

Their Four Hearts

Telluria

Russia’s Finest Metaphysician: On Vladimir Sorokin “Their Four Hearts” and “Telluria”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Ben Hooyman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, where he is writing a dissertation on grotesque modernism in early-20th-century Russian literature. He is currently working on several translation projects, including a collection of short stories by Russian horror writer Yuri Mamleev.