Reviews
February 2, 2011
The Contemptibles and the Tapeworms: Houellebecq and BHL Correspond 1
by James Camp
BHL and Houellebecq were not close when they began writing one another. It does not seem that correspondence brought them significantly closer.
January 28, 2011
High Stakes: Danielle Evans’s Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self 1
by Dylan Suher
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.
January 27, 2011
Beverly Cleary’s Dispatches from the Golden West 2
by Lydia Kiesling
She writes about moving from small town to big city, the specter of pioneer ancestors, the pathos of only children, restless mothers, crooked teeth, perverted uncles, gloomy boyfriends, and tonsillitis.
January 26, 2011
Adam Levin’s The Instructions and the Cult of the Child 7
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Why so much genius? Why now?
January 25, 2011
Dada Pedagogy: Andrei Codrescu’s The Poetry Lesson 2
by Josh Cook
Regardless of how it’s labeled, The Poetry Lesson is a brilliant work.
January 24, 2011
The Dwindling Difference Between Play and Work: Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken 4
by Michael Thomsen
McGonigal enumerates reality’s broken parts in a laundry list of suffering. In short, games will fix everything.
