Loads of Learned Lumber

HER SECOND, FROM two years ago. My question as I began reading was, will this be as strange, beautiful, and scary as The Hounds of No ? Ans...

MUCH-BUZZED, AND deservingly so in this instance; Tower is a talented writer and one to watch. The writing is controlled and witty, the obs...

HIS SECOND, FROM ten years ago. Somewhat lower voltage than Debt , I thought, as though Levine had in the meantime encountered something of...

AT THE RISK of being tiresome about William Logan's review of Against the Day , I note his parenthetical observation, " no one has ...

THE TITLE CAN be taken in at least three ways. For one, the novel participates in the same neo-Zoroastrian children-of-light vs. children-o...

I DID NOT read Against the Day with the slack-jawed wonder at its thematic architecture that I felt in reading Gravity's Rainbow way b...

BACK IN THE 1970s when I was reading Gravity's Rainbow , it seemed like a lot of other people were as well, or had already read it, or w...