Loads of Learned Lumber

IPHIGENIA IN AULIS, in historical novel mode -- operating under the assumption that Agamemnon, Odysseus, Achilles, et al. were every bit as ...

6. Cohen likes long, extraordinarily long sentences. Here is what Benjamin encounters as he crosses from New Jersey into...

LITERARY HEAVENS, FROM Dante to Mitch Albom, gravitate towards explanation, clearing up the big questions, reconciliations, and the like, bu...

5. I began by saying that the events of the story are readily summarized, and have just noted that the book vividly conjures up its setting...

HERE IS THE book's back jacket copy: "In My Kafka Century , Arielle Greenberg raises the gothic European ghosts sealed under the gl...

4. As for plain-label realism itself, the book has many episodes of nuanced social observation, vividly presented. There’s an extraor...

I STARTED THIS soon after finishing Sam Lipsyte's The Ask , and that may be why they seemed to have so much in common. The central main...