Michael LaPointe is a writer and critic in Toronto, Canada. He contributes to the Times Literary Supplement and writes a monthly literary essay for The Walrus.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Who Is the Me?
As "Frantumaglia" is released in the United States, Michael LaPointe looks at the invisible Elena Ferrante....
The Armageddon of New China
László Krasznahorkai's "Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens" chronicles a pilgrimage in search of the authentic China....
Paranoia, the Realistic Response
In Horatio Moya’s novel about a journalist exiled from El Salvador, paranoia is the only logical and moral response....
The Book Gets Fatter: Lydia Davis's "Can't and Won't"
If the sentences in that paragraph have the austerity of a textbook — no proper nouns, few concrete details, indeed nothing that typically signals creative writing — you might suspect those sentences were written by Lydia Davis....
Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's "At Night We Walk in Circles"
Michael LaPointe reviews the much-anticipated second novel from Daniel Alarcón....
Fiction: New & Noteworthy
Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's At Night We Walk in Circles by Michael LaPointe Such Great Heights: Erica Jong’s ...
Death Becomes Her
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost....
