Features
Tuesday, January 25 2011
The Best Fiction of 2010
Tucked into this wide-ranging list of comics collections, retro-inspired literature and cross-overs, are glimmers of something sweet, something to temper the usual Literary Drearies we all love and appreciate. And that’s just the way it should be.
Reviews
Wednesday, January 16 2013
'Astray' Fastens on the Emigrant, the Traveler, the Individual Who Leaves Home
To be a traveler is to encounter ethical complications, an ever-shifting line of self-definition—Donoghue cites preserving one’s accent—and the realities of being an outsider. There are the transgressions only made possible by distance: sexual, moral, legal.
Tuesday, November 16 2010
'Room' Throws the Concept of Boundaries All Asunder
This concept of 'outside' – as opposed to a familiar and comforting inside – is the theme in Room, and it seems somehow fitting that we see this world through the eyes of five-year-old Jack.
