Fiction

Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!

Reviewing Pär Lagerkvist’s Classic, Nobel-Winning Novel ‘Barabbas’

Apr 19 •

Questioning the Greatness of ‘Gatsby’

Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece or, as One Critic Says, ‘Aesthetically Overrated, Psychologically Vacant, and Morally Complacent’?

Apr 16 •

Whose Novels Are We Living In?

Is this Philip K. Dick’s World? What about Vonnegut, Percy, O’Connor, or Didion?

Apr 12 •

Building: How You Can, While You Can

Parallel Visions of Our Work in Willa Cather’s Classic ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’

Mar 27 •

A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve

Inside Vladimir Nabokov’s Head-Scratcher Classic ‘Pale Fire’

Mar 22 •

Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?

Reviewing Anne de Marcken’s ‘It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over’

Mar 15 •

The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson

Exploring Her Classic Novels: ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle,’ ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ Others

Mar 13 •

Just Like Yourself, Perhaps

Hopefully Not! Reviewing Cormac McCarthy’s Gothic Classic ‘Child of God’

Mar 1 •

Coloring Outside the Lines

Reviewing Nella Larsen’s Classic Novels ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Passing’

Feb 8 •

Change Your Skin, Change Your Life?

Reviewing George S. Schuyler’s Afrofuturist Satire ‘Black No More’

Feb 5 •

Trapped in a World You Didn’t Choose

The Choice to Escape: Reviewing Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’ and Anthony Burgess’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’

Jan 25 •

When the Dead Won’t Stay Buried

Reviewing Tony Woodlief’s Southern Gothic Debut, ‘We Shall Not All Sleep’

Nov 23, 2024 •

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