REVIEW: Burn Book by Kara Swisher
byNonfiction. 320 pgs. Simon & Shuster. February 2024. 9781982163891. No Burn Baby, Burn Book, but an informative, entertaining Burn Book. A Tech Love Story. (!) The parenthetical screamer above is…
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REVIEW: Wellness by Nathan Hill
byFiction. 624 pgs. Knopf. September 2023. 9780593536117. Wellness tricks you into thinking it’s going to be a love story. The brilliant novel starts out alternating perspectives between a boy watching…
REVIEW: Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
byFiction. 320 pgs. Scriber. March 2024. 9781668020852. As a modern retelling of the Persephone myth, “Fruit of the Dead” is not the Persephone myth you know. A cautionary tale and…
REVIEW: Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims
byFiction. 202 pgs. Two Dollar Radio. November 2023. 9781953387356. Bennett Sims’s experimental collection Other Minds and Other Stories explores the ways we might potentially fail at creating a legacy. When…
REVIEW: I’d Like To Say Sorry, But There’s No One To Say Sorry To by Mikolaj Grynberg
byFiction. 160 pgs. The New Press. February 2022. 978-1-62097-683-8. Mikolai Grynberg’s first book of fiction, I’d Like To Say Sorry, But There’s No One To Say Sorry To, is about…
REVIEW: Sons, Daughters by Ivana Bodrožić
byFiction. 256 pgs. Seven Stories Press. April 2024. 9781644213353. Humans, famously, are social animals, our lives inseparable from a complex web of relationships. But we are also interior beings with…
REVIEW: Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
byFiction. 336 pgs. Double Day Books. July 2023. 9780385545150. Long a staple of genre fiction, sequels and series have never held much favor in the blue-ribbon literary scene. Because “works…
REVIEW: Low by Nick Flynn
byPoetry. 112 pgs. Graywolf Press. November 2023. 978-1-64445-259-2. It was initially difficult to say whether Nick Flynn’s forthcoming hybrid collection, Low, would be an engagement with the mundane or something…
REVIEW: The Adventure by Giorgio Agamben
byNonfiction. 104 pgs. MIT Press. March 2018. 9780262037594. The fact that the term [adventure]—crucial to the chivalric tradition to which the love poets were so familiar—does not appear in more…
REVIEW: Threshold by Rob Doyle
byFiction. 336 pgs. Bloomsbury Publishing. January 2020. 9781635574142. Rob Doyle’s autobiographical novel, Threshold, is made up of loosely connected chapters taking place everywhere from Berlin, to Bangkok to San Francisco,…