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Progress Is Not Linear, as 'The House of the Pain of Others' Reminds Us with Devastating Effect
Julián Herbert's The House of the Pain of Others is a masterly study that sheds light on the role played by educated elites in fomenting genocide.
03 Jun 2019
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'She Would Be King', an Afrofuturist Novel of Nation-Making in Liberia
Wayétu Moore's She Would Be King is an important exploration of power, identity, and belonging at a major historical junction in African diasporic and Liberian history.
08 Jan 2019
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Alyson Hagy's 'Scribe' Is Gloriously Artful, but Something Is Missing
Hagy's new novel, Scribe, a beautiful work clearly rooted in the ethos of the Program Era, seems the very example of a return to the bourgeois novel of art for art's sake.
15 Nov 2018
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'Children of God' Offers a Dark, Norwegian Treatment of the Jesus Story
Bleak and just barely inspirational, Lars Petter Sveen's Children of God is a story well attuned to these dark times.
26 Oct 2018
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Drive, She Said: Dorthe Nors' 'Mirror, Shoulder, Signal'
Nors provides an informative and careful sort of journalism here that captures the thought patterns of humans in the throes of anxiety and self-pity.
25 Jul 2018
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It Doesn't Always Get Better: Patrick Nathan's 'Some Hell'
Nathan explores the hyperbolic mind of the teenager, a time bomb of unresolved emotion that can be unleashed at any perceived slight, no matter how minor.
22 May 2018
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