Reviews
September 3, 2009
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Thoughts on Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs 24
by Edan Lepucki
We all came out of Lorrie Moore’s overcoat–or her frog hospital, her bonehead Halloween costume.
September 2, 2009
The Lion, The Witch and Ishiguro 3
by Lydia Kiesling
The surprise in a large part of Kazuo Ishiguro’s work is that he changes the very quality of the world in some subtle but deeply alarming way.
August 31, 2009
Hard-Boiled or Half-Baked?: A Review of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice 1
by Garth Risk Hallberg
What is actually novel about Pynchon’s new novel? For one thing, it gives us a protagonist who is even more apt than its author to digress, to space out, to lose the thread.
August 26, 2009
A Life Laid Bare 5
by Andrew Saikali
Epic in scope, William Boyd’s Any Human Heart is intimate to the core.
August 25, 2009
Neighbor in a Strange Land 0
by Lacar Musgrove
Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun is America through the eyes of a New Orleanian.
August 6, 2009
Mope Free: Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli 4
by C. Max Magee
At the risk of being exposed as a graphic novel novice, my problem with the genre has always been that graphic novels never quite seem to take full, exuberant advantage of the potential afforded by the form. Too often, no matter how visually accomplished and how intricately plotted, the characters (paradoxically perhaps) are too one-dimensional. [...]
