Beauty in Recluse: On Katherine Dunn’s “Toad”
Terry Nguyen reviews Katherine Dunn’s posthumously published novel “Toad.”
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes
Terry Nguyen reviews Katherine Dunn’s posthumously published novel “Toad.”
Terry NguyenOct 31, 2022
Jason Namey reviews Dane Bahr’s “The Houseboat,” a gothic noir about a detective investigating an outcast suspected of murder in 1960s Iowa.
Jason NameyOct 13, 2022
Oona Holahan reviews Gwendoline Riley’s novels “First Love” and “My Phantoms.”
Oona HolahanOct 11, 2022
Zander Allport reviews Julia Armfield’s “Our Wives Under the Sea.”
Zander AllportOct 4, 2022
Richard Joseph ponders Donna Tartt’s curious exclusion from the “genre turn” canon.
Richard JosephOct 2, 2022
Suzanne Keen reviews Joseph Allen Boone’s new novel “Furnace Creek.”
Suzanne KeenSep 30, 2022
Wilson Taylor analyzes the superficial glorification of the premodern in Robert Eggers’s “The Northman.”
Wilson TaylorAug 29, 2022
Mark Labowskie talks with Alice Elliott Dark about her new novel, “Fellowship Point.”
Mark LabowskieAug 22, 2022
Robert Chandler addresses the contradictory pulls translators face as they work.
Robert ChandlerAug 15, 2022
Jared Joseph reviews the first English translation of Else Lasker-Schüler’s major prose works.
Jared JosephAug 12, 2022
Abena Ampofoa Asare on the diasporic wanderings — and singular meeting — of James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe.
Abena Ampofoa AsareAug 10, 2022
In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence.
Toby LloydJan 31, 2016