Nathan Deuel
Articles
The Tender Underbelly of Soldiers: Phil Klay’s Lives During Wartime
Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the home front — though promising, is deeply flawed.
A Life in Our Hands: Community, Crime, and Punishment
In stitching together a wholly imagined but realistically nightmarish situation, Ball toys with our desire to know what maybe can't be known…
Ye Who Enter, Abandon Hope: Hell Is a Hospital in Lore Segal's "Half the Kingdom"
In Lore Segal’s Half the Kingdom, the end of days is here…
Reality Strikes
Reality TV ab-idol in a madcap novel.
FICTION: NEW & NOTEWORTHY
A Former Soviet Union: Elliott Holt's "You Are One of Them"
It's the season of the expatriate.
Boats Are in Trees and Photocopiers Are on the Beach: Lucy Corin’s “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses”
There’s enough sparkling, frightening imagination in each piece of this collection to make us fear Corin might know something we don’t.
Total Eclipse of the Bar: Nathan Deuel on ‘Turn Around Bright Eyes’
What’s your karaoke song? Rob Sheffield, one of the best music writers around, on love and ritual.
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