Reviews
August 11, 2010
Kung Fu Graphic Novel Achievement Unlocked: The Scott Pilgrim Series 1
by Janet Potter
Even within this unruly genre, the Scott Pilgrim series is unique in its flexible relationship with convention, borrowing freely from anime, video games, movies, and pop culture.
August 9, 2010
Each Seed Its Own Shell and Coffin: Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall 0
by Jessica Freeman-Slade
Memory Wall walks this perfect line of memorial trepidation. Doerr’s voice has no limits, and each of his six stories quietly probes the grasp we keep on our memories.
August 9, 2010
The ‘Long Time’ of Joan Silber 1
by J.C. Sirott
In Silber’s “rings” of linked stories, the newer stories alter understanding of the earlier stories, until by the very end they have eventually circled back and all affected each other.
August 6, 2010
The New Normal: Martin Amis’s The Pregnant Widow 1
by Yevgeniya Traps
The Pregnant Widow has a simple premise really: a love triangle powered by youthful lust and a suitably exotic locale. Then again, maybe not so simple.
August 3, 2010
Strong Language: Kyle Thomas Smith’s 85A 0
by Emily St. John Mandel
“I’d like to live in dreams”: Holden Caulfield meets 1980s Chicago.
August 2, 2010
A Curmudgeon on Two Wheels: The Bike Snob Book 3
by Bill Morris
Bicycles seem to be saying more about us every day – our politics, our social class, our tribal affiliation. In a word, our values. How is it possible for a simple 2-wheeled contraption to say so much?
