Michael Thomsen is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Slate, Bookforum, and The New Inquiry, among others. He’s also author of the essay collection Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men, and contributed an essay to City by City: Dispatches Trom the American Metropolis.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Fiction as Memoir as Fiction: Tomás González’s “In the Beginning Was the Sea”
Michael Thomsen examines the work of Tomás González — specifically his first novel published in English, In the Beginning Was the Sea....
The War for Pieces: Wu Ming's "Altai"
The books of the Italian collective Wu Ming are historical soap operas that carry an extratextual awareness of their dependence on the past....
