A Treasure Trove of Suppressed Feeling
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
Rob Latham is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Chicago, 2002), co-editor of the Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014) and Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings (2017).
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
The author discusses her versatile career and her first horror novel in decades, “The Dark Factory.”
Remembering one of the most celebrated — and now largely forgotten — writers of an unforgettable decade.
New novels by Kim Newman and Michael Shea illustrate the power of popular myth.
The celebrated horror novelist is rapidly becoming one of our best contemporary crime writers.
Russell Banks’s new novel “Foregone” is his most metafictional work to date.
A superb collection of short and long (mostly long) stories by an award-winning fantasy author.
The prolific author has produced, sometimes under pseudonyms, a rich harvest of taut, stylish thrillers.