In John Williams great work of Western Noir, the one-big-heist goes wrong and flawed men become most...
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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...
I’d be interested to know what the Maus fans will say about the book that replaced Maus...
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...
The unforgettable Eve Babitz has died at age 78. May her memory be a party invitation.
Maugham's story "The Razor's Edge" is about a WWI pilot who heads East seeking spiritual peace resonates...
On a recent trip to New York City, a David Wojnarowicz booklet from 1989, and the artist...
"Jacket Weather" by Mike DeCapite is an elegiac meditation on love and aging in New York with...
Graves attributed to Tiberius this: “I am nursing a viper for the Roman people, and Phaethon for...
Kalani Pickhart's hugely ambitious debut novel about the 2013 Ukrainian Revolution tells of how we struggle against...
Haruki Murakami returns with "First Person Singular": eight short stories that read like memories that might have...
Joyce Carol Oates is a great novelist and I admire in her 1986 novel, but alas, it...
Sean Avery Medlin sings, and dreams, and recreates, and dances themself in 808s and Otherworlds, a book...
Wharton's American Gothic at least makes the case that hell is a lot colder than we'd imagined....
Tolstoy's great short story "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is really about how we avoid thoughts of...
