Articles by Dylan Suher
January 28, 2011
High Stakes: Danielle Evans’s Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self 1
You know these characters shouldn’t get a pass for their behavior, but you don’t quite blame them for it either. They know a certain pitiless brutality to be an immutable truth of life.
July 28, 2010
The Beauty That Lies in Wasted Time: On Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber 6
Dream of the Red Chamber‘s doomed lovers, Jia Bao-yu and Lin Dai-yu, are as iconic in China as Romeo and Juliet are in the West. It’s also notable for its staggering length. At about twenty-eight hundred pages, the book is about twice as long as my copy of War and Peace.
