Reader, I Disemboweled Him
/Intrepid reporter Deirdre Crimmins tackles that last literary taboo: Regency zombies.
Read MoreMay the Horse Be with Him
/Before Arthas was a character in a new novel, he was a character in a video game (World of Warcraft, naturally) – which makes him fair game for our gaming expert, Phillip Lobo.
Read MoreMurder on the Fractureline
/China Mieville’s latest book features two cities nervously co-existing in the same space. Khalid Ponte looks at both sides now.
Read MoreUppity Blues
/Master of the mannered sneak-attack, Kazuo Ishiguro has enraptured readers for years – including Karen Vanuska, who walks us through Nocturnes, his collection of linked stories.
Read MoreThis Book Will Shoot You
/Shifting from a Vietnam epic, newly-minted National Book Award winner Denis Johnson goes noir in Nobody Move; John Matthew Fox leads us down these new mean streets.
Read MoreJoseph Conrad's Tragic Predicament
/“A sorry business this scribbling,” Joseph Conrad once confessed, and we remember him problematically. John Rodwan reappraises the murky nature of his books.
Read MoreReview of Before I Lose My Style
/Steve Donoghue reviews the structurally bold gay novel "Before I Lose My Style".
Read MoreReview of The Great Perhaps
/Steve Donoghue review "The Great Perhaps," "Joe Meno’s best book to date by several orders of magnitude."
Read MoreRom Zom Com
/Exiled to the basement, pelted with garbage, and unlucky in love: zombies have it rough in S.G. Browne’s new novel Breathers. Dierdre Crimmins lends a sympathetic ear (figuratively, of course).
Read MoreRoots Into Entrails
/A Nazi picaresque wouldn’t seem to be a likely read, but Karen Vanuska reviews a new reprint of Jakov Lind’s 1962 World War II novel Landscape in Concrete and finds its grim, absurd power undimmed by the years.
Read MoreHow to Wreck a Planet
/Jeanette Winterson has made a career of pushing her prose poetry into different worlds. But by abandoning Earth altogether, has she left her readers stranded? Karen Vanuska heretically challenges The Stone Gods.
Read MoreReview of You Are Here
/Steve Donoghue digs into Donald Breckenridge's stylistically arresting "You Are Here"
Read MoreReview of Patient Zero
/"Patient Zero is full of sharp dialogue, rapid-fire action, fascinating (and, the author somewhat disturbingly promises us, entirely fact-based) patho-science, and a wide array of deftly drawn characters."
Read MoreA Review of A Naked Singularity
/If a book of this unsettling oddness and power can be found, virtually at random, on the lists of one self-publish print-on-demand outfit, we might well lie awake wondering what else we're missing, out there in the sprawling infinitude of computers and ISBNs.
Read MoreReview of Last Days
/In John Cotter's review of Brian Evenson's Last Days, he states, "I came to it looking for a quick and disturbing shocker. And it satisfied. That’s something real."
Read MoreReview of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
/In his review of, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Steve Donoghue explains why this book might make you want to "punch" the author...
Read MoreA Deadly Serious Kind of Farce
/Rare indeed these days for mention of Iran to provoke smiles—and so Iraj Perezkzad’s beloved farce My Uncle Napoleon gains new relevance. Bryn Haworth takes a fresh look at an old friend.
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