The Beginning Is Never Behind Us: On Christos Ikonomou’s “Good Will Come From the Sea”
"Good Will Come From the Sea" is a premonition of a world to come, far more than it is a paternalistic exposé of present-day Greece.
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
"Good Will Come From the Sea" is a premonition of a world to come, far more than it is a paternalistic exposé of present-day Greece.
Niko MaragosMar 13, 2019
Boris Dralyuk appreciates a “riveting political biography” of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe” by Brian J. Boeck.
Boris DralyukMar 11, 2019
An Israeli author discusses his first novel in English translation, “The Diamond Setter.”
Shoshana OlidortMar 6, 2019
Helen Oyeyemi's "Gingerbread" is a Rubik's Cube of a book, with all the frustration and delight that toy entails.
Anita FelicelliMar 5, 2019
Marilyn Macron exhumes the dark history of Ernst Haffner’s “Blood Brothers.”
Marilyn MacronMar 4, 2019
Amit Chaudhuri on literary activism, alternative modernisms, and the comedy of friendship.
Sumana RoyMar 4, 2019
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature. In this inaugural edition, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Quim Monzó.
Azareen Van der Vliet OloomiMar 1, 2019
Nadia Beard follows the threads of “Virtuoso,” a “vivid and visceral” novel by Yelena Moskovich.
Nadia BeardFeb 28, 2019
On “Mother Country” by Irina Reyn, “Savage Feast” by Boris Fishman, and “Immigrant City” by David Bezmozgis.
Maggie Levantovskaya, Sasha SenderovichFeb 26, 2019
Alexander C. Kafka discovers an author at war with himself in Joseph Scapellato’s “The Made-Up Man.”
Alexander C. KafkaFeb 26, 2019
Joseph Darda explores the confluence of new humanist philosophy and the rise of the creative writing MFA.
Joseph DardaFeb 25, 2019
A look at the writing of Ronald M. Schernikau, a unique figure within the German left whose homosexuality inspired a Whitmanesque expansive politics.
Ben Miller, Nicholas CourtmanFeb 24, 2019