Fiction

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 •

What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?

In Which I Interview Myself about George Eliot’s Beloved Classic

Nov 20, 2024 •

Meaning in Mystery: Why Noir Speaks in a Morally Ambiguous World

The Dark Allure of Heartless Criminals and Hardboiled Detectives

Nov 9, 2024 •

Treat or Trick? The Trap of Our Desires

Reviewing Ray Bradbury’s Halloween Classic, ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’

Oct 30, 2024 •

Stark Truth: All the King’s Terrible Choices

What America’s Greatest Political Novel Reveals about Us All. Reviewing Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Winning Novel

Oct 26, 2024 •

What ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Visible to Me

A Scientist Grapples with How Character Impacts Science, Technology, and Power

Oct 19, 2024 •

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