Bad Day at Black Rock is one film that straddles genres: its setting is Western and its...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
A recovered Constance DeJong novel from late 70s NYC that overflows its banks and exhausts all possibilities...
In recent weeks, Colson Whitehead has become the writer who leaves me thinking "Man, how does he...
Berg seems to go through a crisis of his own. Does he really want to kill this...
Really, what’s most striking about Crimes of the Future is how un-futuristic the world depicted actually is
Natalia Ginzburg's prose captures the stark, fragmented absurdity of life after the cataclysm of Fascism: everything is...
Turgenev's first novel tells of a common type: the brilliant intellectual who could have changed the world,...
Because, like all great books on music, David Keenan is really writing about us, nudging us in...
It's hard to write about the South. Harry Crews's first novel took a tone somewhere between the...
Warren Ellis's new book "Nina Simone's Gum" is everyone he encountered in his mad quest to save...
Germinal by Émile Zola, meanwhile, is a sort of fever dream of hell on earth that still...
This recently-rediscovered novella is a chilling anomaly in dystopian fiction: here the censorious "they" feel no need...
In John Williams great work of Western Noir, the one-big-heist goes wrong and flawed men become most...
Gary Barwin is a writer of seemingly boundless energy and invention, and it does admittedly get a...
David Rattray believed that poetry is a mystical language and the poet is a coyote smuggling us...
In this debut novel, "New Animal" by Ella Baxter, a mortuary artist deals with all of the...
I chose The Cannibal by John Hawkes because it was on a table of writers who are...
If you've felt that a large chunk of your society has gone insane-or YOU have-there's much you...
Maybe stories about the post-war suburban idyll only really work if they're dark and Gothic and frightening...
I did want to talk a little about the book “Landis: The Story of a Real Man...
