Staff Picks
May 18, 2010
The Jagged Arc: Wilson by Dan Clowes 0
by Jacob Lambert
The cartoons pass and the narrative builds, and all the while, so does a sense that all this pain, all this unfiltered hate, had better be worth it—for this pathetic character and for ourselves.
February 27, 2010
Father, Son, and Silver Screen: David Gilmour’s The Film Club 1
by Andrew Saikali
With a novelist’s attention to detail and a film buff’s ear for dialogue, this is a gripping tale of a father and son.
October 30, 2009
Staff Pick: House of Leaves on Halloween 8
by Ben Dooley
Mark Z. Danielewski paints the page like a canvas, exploiting both knife-sharp prose, painfully clever post-modernist narrative devices, and typographical tricks to draw the reader into his tale of horror.
October 22, 2009
Staff Picks: Everything Matters! and Big Machine 1
by Edan Lepucki
Both of these books were wild and weird, but they also were heartbreaking.
October 20, 2009
The Maples Stories, Backward 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Maples Stories, read backward, draw on the best of both Updikes: the younger writer’s curiosity, anxiety, and social preoccupations; the older’s earned sense of pathos.
October 14, 2009
Staff Pick: Graham Greene’s The Captain and the Enemy 0
by Andrew Saikali
Truth and lies, family and belonging are all woven together the Graham Greene way.
