"Shape as a preoccupation makes sense in a book about storytelling. Shapes and lines create order out of chaos, or at least highlight possible orderly paths through it. Solnit’s personal “story of sorts” brings together episodes from a difficult year … [Read more]
Steve Almond on “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” by Said Sayrafiezadeh
"His prose has an allegorical quality that is long on evocation and short on specifics. We have no idea why the war started, for example, or against whom it is being waged. We know only that it’s been great for business. The weather has gone haywire, … [Read more]
David Kirby on “Late Parade” by Adam Fitzgerald
. . "No, his is a third way, a poetry that is neither sealed off from human ears nor bent solely on pleasing them. In a word, his poems are drunk on both word and allusion and are therefore doubly tipsy. There are plenty of poets who are word-drunk … [Read more]
Eleanor Henderson on Brewster by Mark Slouka
"Slouka’s storytelling is sure and patient, deceptively steady and devastatingly agile. Like Ray, the profoundly lovable hero, “Brewster” is full of secrets, and they are tragic ones: there is no sadder fate than being hated by someone who should … [Read more]
Tania James on “The Village” by Nikita Lalwani
One of the novel’s great strengths is how it maintains an ambience of mystery and menace, partly due to the secrecy shrouding the inmates. The story gathers force once the filmmakers pierce the shroud, directly intervening in the fates of several … [Read more]
Tucson Tombstone Regionalia: “Son of a Gun”
It’s “an elitist fantasy, the simple life,” St. Germain writes of that lying dream. “I ought to know better, ought to remember how it feels to live in a place like this, the grinding poverty, the lack of opportunity, all the kinds of self-defeat — … [Read more]
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