The rich and detailed story of "Assembling a Black Counter Culture" and how Detroit gave the world...
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Finally, I write about a streaming series - I watched the streaming series "Severance," a surreal depiction...
For a lot of Canadians, Gord Lewis played on the soundtrack of their youth. For me, he...
Desperate Characters, a rediscovered classic about two people whose lives would be ideal, if they had any...
Guy de Maupassant's classic novel is another in a long line of adulterous wife stories; but really,...
I wanted to write about Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones for a few reasons, including its...
Bad Day at Black Rock is one film that straddles genres: its setting is Western and its...
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...
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...
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...
