Spencer Grayson reviews Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife. Julia Alvarez’s new novel begins with verse, not prose, in a prologue titled “Broken English.” Her narrator Antonia Vega…
Everything is Personal, This is Personal Too
Editor Emmi Mack reviews Laurie Stone’s latest collection, Everything is Personal: Notes on Now. In her latest collection of hybrid nonfiction, Everything is Personal: Notes…
Finding What is Lost in C. J. Tudor’s The Other People
The Other People / C J Tudor / Ballantine, 01/20 – $27 (Hardcover) There is something relentlessly engrossing about a mystery. The suspense, the shock,…
Arcana, Alive: Anne Serre’s The Fool
The Fool and Other Moral Tales / Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson / New Directions, 09/19 – $15 (Paperback) Repulsive, violent, confounding: that’s how…
Mystery At the Edge of the World: A Review of Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth
Disappearing Earth / Julia Phillips / Knopf, 05/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) “In Kamchatka,” Julia Phillips told the Paris Review, “you can slip between the cracks…
A Phoenix from the Ashes: Myth and Memorial in Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie
Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel / Sara Stridsberg, trans. by Deborah Bragan-Turner / FSG, 08/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) Valerie Solanas’s Wikipedia page…
Babel Unbuilt: Alan Shapiro’s Against Translation
“Beginning with the fall of towers and ending with the emergence of a new voice, the mastery of Against Translation is clear…”
A Diorama of Memories: Claire Millikin’s Ransom Street
“Spectres linger in the poems of Ransom Street…”
Reading Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree
Midterms season is probably not the best time to read an 848-page novel pertaining in no way to your exams, but the mind has curious…