Academic Angst Goes Abroad in ‘The English Experience’
For all of its fun, Julie Schumacher's 'The English Experience' is a bracingly accurate tour of the pedagogical experience.
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Deliverance Is Seldom: On Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris’
Sorrow, in 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris,' is the likeliest underpinning of reality.
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The Maybe-Messiah and His Grandmother’s Ghost: On Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’
That Tokarczuk's Nobel nomination was rumored to be greatly based on the accomplishments of this book has only magnified the anticipation. And now, it is here.
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Grace and Oblivion in the Forgotten Neighborhoods of ‘Shaky Town’
Shaky Town is a tough and beautiful mural of a novel constructed with interwoven short stories that explore the streets of East Los Angeles in the 1980s.
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László Krasznahorkai Comes Home
The Hungarian master's novel cycle culminates with a fourth book full of manic humor that also happens to be precisely the book we need right now.
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Reading Roberto Bolaño’s Final Wake-Up Call
If you’re trying to decide whether or not to read Bolaño’s 900-page opus, I can only say this: it must be read, but no shame to any person who cannot.
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Revisiting Malcolm Lowry’s ‘Under the Volcano’ on the Day of the Dead
The ultimate tragedy of Under the Volcano is that of humanity’s wasted potential. Can, Lowry pondered, the psyche repair itself?
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