Demolishing the Tyranny of Chronology: On Sandro Veronesi’s “The Hummingbird”A bravura Italian novel about the points in life where “[all the] pain is concentrated.”...CORY OLDWEILERFICTION
Mutations of Warped Manliness: Selva Almada’s “Brickmakers”A brilliant, nuanced novel about the links between masculinity and violence in Argentina....CORY OLDWEILERFICTION
“A Home in the Neon Heat of Nature”: A New Biography of Czesław MiłoszCynthia Haven’s “Czesław Miłosz: A California Life” captures the formative dynamics of exile....CORY OLDWEILERBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY