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Brian Finney

Brian Finney is a professor emeritus in English at California State University, Long Beach. He has published seven books, including a critical biography of Christopher Isherwood that won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for nonfiction. Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society, was published in 2011. His latest book published 2019 is Money Matters: A Novel.

Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”

Brian Finney reviews “Quichotte,” the latest novel from Salman Rushdie....

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Irony: Truth’s Disguise

Irony states the opposite of what it intends to mean. But what if no one spots it and takes the ironic statement literally?...

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The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews “Slade House”

Like all Mitchell's novels, "Slade House" belongs to the same Übernovel he has been constructing from the beginning while it remains a self-contained unit....

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Adding to the Übernovel: Why David Mitchell Does What He Does

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Taking on Hammer Horror: Jeanette Winterson’s “The Daylight Gate”

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LITERARY FICTION

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A Stupefied Outpouring of the Life: Richard Bradford's "Martin Amis"

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Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics

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Perfectly Plausible Worlds

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