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May 21, 2013
At the Frontiers of the Unsayable: Bennett Sims’s A Questionable Shape 4
by Susan Hazen-Hammond
There may be readers who will — on discovering that A Questionable Shape combines a quest, a romance, humor, and an epidemic of zombies, with philosophy, footnotes, history, science, the arts, half of Daniel Webster, cascades of lyricism and truckloads of realism — refuse to so much as open the back cover. I wish they would rethink their decision.
May 20, 2013
Hold On 0
by Thomas Beckwith
Lindsay King-Miller — she of Ask A Queer Chick — pays tribute to an old friend who died before her twenty-sixth birthday.
May 20, 2013
The Sorrows of Jodorowsky 0
by Thomas Beckwith
Recommended: Andrew O’Hehir on a failed adaptation of Dune.
May 20, 2013
Keys Under the Basket 0
by Thomas Beckwith
“Mr. Fogg assured us he would touch down at our place at precisely 8:45 in the evening. Imagine our delight when he not only arrived with all the punctuality befitting an Englishman, but also quite literally touched down! In a hot air balloon!” Introducing literary couchsurfing.
May 20, 2013
Remember This? 0
by Thomas Beckwith
Before his death of natural causes in 2008, Henry Gustave Molaison had the world’s most famous brain. At 27, Molaison permanently lost the ability to form new memories, which led to him spending the rest of his life in “thirty-second loops of awareness.” In the LRB, Mike Jay reviews a new book on Molaison, Permanent [...]
May 20, 2013
George Saunders and the Question of Greatness 9
by Elizabeth Minkel
The hype surrounding George Saunders’s Tenth of December in the early days of the calendar year was kind of staggering. The backlash followed not long afterwards, when it was suggested that someone who can’t seem to accrue enough pages to pen the Great American Novel couldn’t actually be considered the writer of our time. This makes me cringe — maybe because I’m beginning to suspect that it’s true.