I chose The Cannibal by John Hawkes because it was on a table of writers who are...
Sunday
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...
William Lindsay Gresham heard a story he never forgot. Guillermo Del Toro's recent adaptation of his "Nightmare...
Maugham's story "The Razor's Edge" is about a WWI pilot who heads East seeking spiritual peace resonates...
Two visions of pleasure travel from Laurence Sterne and Michel Houellebecq 230 years apart, offer two very...
It's a cameo role as memorable as Brando's is "Apocalypse Now." It's also the exact point at...
On a recent trip to New York City, a David Wojnarowicz booklet from 1989, and the artist...
Seconds is an existential horror movie scarier than any B-movie slasher- they can only kill you once;...
"Jacket Weather" by Mike DeCapite is an elegiac meditation on love and aging in New York with...
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...
Dawnie Wilson’s rocking debut novel "The Final Revival of Opal and Nev" is about the greatest musical...
As a thought experiment, let's consider Virginia Woolf to be a horror writer; all of her characters...
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola about the Paris food market is crammed full of enough...
The second book in Butler's Parables series shows how our stories can often blind us to reality,...
