Station Eleven and global cooling
I recently read Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, which didn’t quite overwhelm me the way it has overwhelmed...
Tag: Fiction
22 Results
Mark Greif and Mrs. Turpin
I’ve written a review of Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man for Books and Culture, but it won’t appear for...
on Adam Roberts’s Bête
This is a book about the difference between being a butcher and being a murderer, if there is a difference This is a...
on Bleak House
I was recently telling a friend on Twitter who had just read Bleak House that when I first read it and got to the end I...
the problem of Lewis the storyteller
A recurrent problem for those of us who suffer from chronic logorrhea is our tendency to forget what we have and have...
in which I try to figure out what Lee Siegel is saying about fiction
Siegel: It’s safe to say that, like life itself, fiction’s properties are countless and unquantifiable. Well …...
the Fanny Price we’ll never see
I’m not especially excited about the Austen Project: The Austen Project, with bestselling contemporary authors...
Cloud Atlas
James Joyce once wrote to a friend that the thought of Ulysses is simple; it’s only the method that’s complex. Much...
Jonathan Franzen and the family novel
Reading Jonathan Franzen’s commendation of Christina Stead’s novel The Man Who Loved Children I see that it is...
Market Day
To me, James Sturm’s Market Day provides a far more compelling visual world than David Small’s Stitches. It...