The Romantic Nightmare in Alfred Döblin’s ‘Bright Magic’
The stories in this collection are circular, puzzling; they often end as cruelly as they do quietly, the characters and their journeys extinguished with poisonous calm.
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The Glow Lives on in Taimak’s ‘The Last Dragon’
The actor's memoir is a backtracking through a life under scrutiny and a life eventually left to chance.
Novella Carpenter’s ‘Gone Feral’ Departs Radically from Her Prior Books
Now a parent herself, Carpenter asks how her father, such a gifted man, became so ruined.