BOOK REVIEWS:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The Children’s Hospital — Chris Adrian
Alexander, Patrick
Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time — Patrick Alexander
Almond, Steve
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life — Steve Almond
Appollodorus, Olivier and Lewis Trondheim
Bourbon Island 1730 — Olivier Appollodorus and Lewis Trondheim
Aslam, Nadeem
The Wasted Vigil — Nadeem Aslam
Atwood, Margaret
On Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about storytelling
A Lazy Riff on Margaret Atwood’s Novel MaddAddam
The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
Austen, Jane
Austen, Jane and Ben H. Winters
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters — Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Auster, Paul
Auster, Paul and David Mazzucchelli
I Review City of Glass, A Comic Book Doppelgänger of Paul Auster’s Postmodern Detective Novel
Baker, Nicholson
I Review House of Holes, Nicholson Baker’s Ovidian Raunchfest
Balestrini, Nanni
I Review (Version #10786 of) Nanni Balestrini’s Novel Tristano
Ballard, J.G.
Despite our Ballardian present, the High-Rise film adaptation is a nostalgia piece
J.G. Ballard’s degenerate debauched depraved novel High-Rise
Millennium People, despite a great concept and some fascinating ideas, really isn’t so good.
The Essential Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Eleventh Riff: The Nineties)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Tenth Riff: The Eighties)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Ninth Riff: The Seventies)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Eighth Riff: Closing Out the Sixties)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Seventh Riff: 1966)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Sixth Riff: 1963-1964)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Fourth Riff: Stories of 1962)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Third Riff: Stories of 1961)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (Second Riff: Stories of 1960)
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (First Riff: Introductions + Stories 1956-1959)
Barbusse, Henri
Barth, John
The Sot-Weed Factor — John Barth
Barthes, Roland
Bax, Martin
Beale, Daphne
In the Land of No Right Angles — Daphne Beal
Bell, Matt
Parenting After the Apocalypse — I Review Matt Bell’s Cataclysm Baby
Bennett, Claire-Louise
On Claire-Louise Bennett’s short story “Stir-Fry”
Benton, Walter
The Worst Poetry I Have Ever Read
Berger, John
Berlin, Lucia
A review of Lucia Berlin’s excellent short story collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women
Bernhard, Thomas
Riff #2 on Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters
“Horror Demands Laughter” | This Is Not a Review of Thomas Bernhard’s Novel Frost
Riff on Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters
Gargoyles, Thomas Bernhard’s Philosophical Novel of Abject Madness
A Riff on Thomas Bernhard’s Novel The Loser
Three Notes on Thomas Bernhard’s Novel Correction (Plot, Prose, and a Riff)
Binet, Laurent
Not a review of Laurent Binet’s novel The Seventh Function of Language
Laurent Binet’s HHhH Is a Thrilling Intertextual Adventure Story
Blatnik, Andrei
You Do Understand — Andrej Blatnik
Bolaño, Roberto
“The Return,” one of my favorite ghost stories
Bolaño’s The Unknown University
True Detective, Bolaño’s 2666, Werewolves, Etc
Wherein I Suggest Dracula Is a Character in Roberto Bolaño’s Novel 2666
“What’s Outside the Window?” (Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives Revisited)
Intertexuality and Structure in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Roberto Bolaño’s Powers of Horror
The Third Reich: Part III — Roberto Bolaño
The Third Reich: Part II — Roberto Bolaño
Between Parentheses — Roberto Bolaño
The Third Reich: Part I — Roberto Bolaño
The Skating Rink — Roberto Bolaño
The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolaño
Nazi Literature in the Americas — Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview
Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 Revisited
By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolaño
Last Evenings on Earth — Roberto Bolaño
The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolaño
Böll, Heinrich
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bowles, Jane
Jane Bowles’s novel Two Serious Ladies confounds with sinister humor and dark delight
Bowles, Paul
Brodkey, Harold
First Love and Other Sorrows — Harold Brodkey
Brody, Leslie
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford — Leslie Brody
Brooks, Marshall
I Review Paperback Island, Marshall Brooks’s Love Letter to Books and the People Who Make Them
Brown, Mick
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
Bryson, Bill
Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors — Bill Bryson
Büchner, Georg
The Never-Ending Torture of Unrest | Georg Büchner’s Lenz Reviewed
Bulgakov, Mikhail
A quick note on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov’s Novel The Master and Margarita Reviewed
Burns, Charles
Charles Burns’s Sugar Skull Reviewed
Charles Burns Enriches His Wonderfully Weird Trilogy with The Hive
Burroughs, William S.
100 Point William Burroughs Riff
Byrne, David
Afro-Cuban Tales–Lydia Cabrera
Capek, Karel
War With the Newts — Karel Capek
Carroll, Cath
Never Break the Chain–Cath Carroll on Fleetwood Mac
Carroll, Lewis
The Hunting of the Snark — Lewis Carroll (with Surreal New Illustrations by Mahendra Singh)
Casey, Michael
Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image — Michael Casey
Catling, Brian
Cecil, Sam K.
Chabon, Michael
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union–Michael Chabon
Chrostowska, S.D.
S.D. Chrostowska’s Novel Permission Deconstructs the Episotolary Form
Clowes, Daniel
Mister Wonderful — Daniel Clowes
Cody, Joshua
I Didn’t Like Joshua Cody’s Memoir [sic]
Cole, Teju
Teju Cole’s Open City Is a Strange, Marvelous Novel That Captures the Post-9/11 Zeitgeist
Collins, Stephen
Stephen Collins’s Allegorical Fable The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil Reviewed
Cooper, Dave
A review of Dave Cooper’s queasy abject comic Mudbite (at The Comics Journal)
Coover, Robert
On Robert Coover’s short story “The Brother”
A review of Robert Coover’s excellent new novel Huck Out West
Critchley, Simon
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying — Simon Critchley
The Book of Dead Philosophers — Simon Critchley
Cronin, Justin
Cross, August
Immaterials, August Cross’s Contemporary Take on Goya’s Caprichos
Crownover, Ashley
The BFG, Roald Dahl’s Love Letter to His Lost Daughter
Dara, Evan
A Conversation about Evan Dara’s Novel Flee (Part 2)
A Conversation about Evan Dara’s Novel Flee (Part 1)
Some notes on beginning Evan Dara’s novel Flee
Davies, W.H.
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp — W.H. Davies
Davis, Lydia
A close reading of Lydia Davis’s very short story “Happiest Moment”
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Daugherty, Tracy
Hiding Man, Tracy Daugherty Biography of Donald Barthelme
Dawson, Ashley
Extinction, Gilgamesh, Miyazaki’s Wolfchild, etc. (A Riff)
De Botton, Alain
Delany, Samuel
Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren: I quit
DeLillo, Don
On Don DeLillo’s novel The Names
Den Bogaert, Van and George O’Connor
Journey into Mohawk Country–Van den Bogaert and George O’Connor
DeWitt, Helen
Helen DeWitt’s novel Lightning Rods just wasn’t for me
Diaz, Junot
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
Di Benedetto, Antonio
Let me recommend Antonio di Benedetto’s overlooked novel Zama
Dick, Philip K.
On Philip K. Dick’s novel A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick’s novel Martian Time-Slip
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer — Philip K. Dick
Galactic Pot-Healer — Philip K. Dick
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
I Riff on Dostoevsky’s Novel Crime and Punishment
Eggers, Dave and Vendela Vida
Away We Go — Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
Ellis, Bret Easton
Ellison, Ralph
“The Narrative Is the Meaning”: More on Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Three Days Before the Shooting . . . — Beginning Ralph Ellison’s Posthumous Second Novel
Ellroy, James
Blood’s a Rover — James Ellroy
Equiano, Olaudah
Cannibalism and the Economy of Sacrifice in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
Ernst, Max
Une Semaine de Bonté — Max Ernst
Eugenides, Jeffrey
I Riff on Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot, Which I Haven’t Read (Book Acquired, 8.22.2012)
Ethical Realism (and Grim Decadence) in Hans Fallada’s Wolf Among Wolves
Faulkner, William
Light in August — William Faulkner
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, The Perils of Assigned Reading, and A Call for Second Chances
The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner
Ferrante, Elena
Dissolving boundaries | Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Ford, Michael Thomas
Jane Bites Back — Michael Thomas Ford
Franzen, Jonathan
An Obligatory Review of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom
Frost, Laura
Please Unplease Me: A Review of Laura Frost’s The Problem With Pleasure
William Gaddis’s J R (A short riff on a long book)
The Inhumanity Museum (The Recognitions)
Some Annotations on the First Sentence of William Gaddis’s Last Novel, Agapē Agape
A Riff on William Gaddis’s The Recognitions
I Riff–Again–on William Gaddis’s Enormous Novel JR (This Time After Finishing It)
I Riff on William Gaddis’s Enormous Novel J R (From About Half Way Through)
The Recognitions (Part I) — William Gaddis
Garner, Helen
Gass, William H.
The Inhumanity Museum (Middle C)
Gombrowicz, Witold
Trans-Atlantyk — Witold Gombrowicz
Gonzales, Laurence
Yeah Yeah YA — New Novels from Laurence Gonzales and Simon Rich
Grant, Helen
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden — Helen Grant
Green, Paul
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns — Paul Green
Greene, Graham
“The Priest Is Us”: The Power and The Glory, Graham Greene’s Adventure of Religion and Faith
Grossman, Vasily
The Ten-Cent Plague — David Hajdu
Hammett, Dashiell
Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett
Hammond, Richard and Jeremy Smith
Clean Breaks — Richard Hammond and Jeremy Smith
Hannah, Barry
Barry Hannah’s Novella Hey Jack! Is a Loose, Hilarious Tragedy
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hanshe, Rainer J.
Harbach, Chad
Why I Abandoned Chad Harbach’s Over-Hyped Novel The Art of Fielding After Only 100 Pages
Harder, Jens
Havel, Vaclav
To the Castle and Back — Vaclav Havel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A Riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tale “The Birth-Mark”
Hemingway, Ernest
The Garden of Eden — Ernest Hemingway
Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway
Hendricks, Steve
A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial — Steve Hendricks
Hergé
The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 3 — Hergé
Herrera, Yuri
Yuri Herrera’s Kingdom Cons condenses myth into vibrant narco noir
Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World is sharp subterranean fiction
Higgins, George V.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle — George V. Higgins
Hitchings, Henry
The Secret Life of Words — Henry Hitchings
Hoban, Russell
Riddley Walker — Russell Hoban
Hoffman, Eva
Hollander, Jessica
Jessica Hollander’s Collection In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place Reviewed
Holquist, Michael
Houellebecq, Michel
Riffing on Michel Houellebecq’s Novel The Elementary Particles
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Buried Giant — Kazuo Ishiguro
Iyer, Lars
A Riff on Lars Iyer’s Novel Exodus
The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson’s Novel About Identity and Storytelling in North Korea
Johnson, Denis
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams Is a Perfect Audiobook
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams Is a Perfect Novella
Denis Johnson’s Nobody Move and the Pleasures of Postmodern Crime Fiction
Essential Short Story Collections: Jesus’ Son
Jones, Judith
Joyce, James
We Review RTÉ’s Full Cast Audio Recording of James Joyce’s Ulysses
How to Read James Joyce’s Ulysses (and Why You Should Avoid “How-to” Guides Like This One)
Kang, Han
Not a review of Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian
Kechagiar, Allen
I Review The Mundane History of Lockwood Heights, a Chapbook by Allen Kechagiar
Kendall, Stuart
Stuart Kendall’s New Translation of Gilgamesh Restores Poetic Strangeness to an Ancient Epic
Kertesz, Imre
Keyes, Ralph
Kirchner, Paul
Koestenbaum, Wayne
Humiliation — Wayne Koestenbaum
Kosinski, Jerzy
Kotkin, Stephen
Uncivil Society — Stephen Kotkin
Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
The Thieves of Manhattan — Adam Langer
My Father’s Bonus March — Adam Langer
Lavender-Smith, Evan
I Anti-Review Evan Lavender-Smith’s Anti-Novel, From Old Notebooks
L’Engle, Madeleine
Le Guin, Ursula K.
On the radical postmodernism of Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story “Schrödinger’s Cat”
The Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin
Lerner, Ben
A Conversation About Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (Part Two)
A Conversation about Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (Part One)
Lesit, Anton and Peter Singer
J.M. Coetzee and Ethics — Anton Lesit & Peter Singer
Lessing, Doris
What’s Got Into You? | Ventriloquism in The Golden Notebook
The Inhumanity Muesum (The Golden Notebook)
Lethem, Jonathan
Gun, with Occasional Music — Jonathan Lethem
You Don’t Love Me Yet — Jonathan Lethem
Levin, Adam
Lin, Tao
Lingeman, Richard
The Nation Guide to the Nation –- Richard Lingeman
Lipsyte, Sam
The Subject Steve — Sam Lipsyte
Lish, Gordon
“Nothing but Trouble” | Gordon Lish’s New Collection Goings Plays with the Problems of Language
The Collected Fictions of Gordon Lish (as Read by Gordon Lish)
Lispector, Clarice
Littell, Jonathan
Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones Is Lurid Abject Art
Long, J.J.
W.G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity — J.J. Long
Lowry, Malcolm
Under the Volcano — Malcolm Lowry
Lukes, Steve
Moral Relativism — Steven Lukes
The Cranky Brilliance of Dwight Macdonald’s Midcult and Masscult
Mannix, Daniel P.
We Who Are Not as Others–Daniel P. Mannix
Mantel, Hilary
I Audit Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (Part 3 of 3)
I Audit Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (Part 1)
Marcus, Ben
I Try to Review Ben Marcus’s Novel The Flame Alphabet
Marcus, Greil
The Old, Weird America — Greil Marcus on The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
Markson, David
A Review of David Markson’s The Last Novel (Composed Mostly in Citations from Said Novel)
Martel, Yann
Beatrice and Virgil — Yann Martel
Martin, George R.R.
Mason, Zachary
The Lost Books of the Odyssey — Zachary Mason
Mazzucchelli, David
Asterios Polyp — David Mazzucchelli
McCarthy, Cormac
Reading There Will Be Blood as the expanded epilogue to Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
The Sunset Limited — Cormac McCarthy
Child of God — Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy
McCarthy, Kevin
Historic Photos of University of Florida Football–Kevin McCarthy
McCarthy, Tom
I Review Tom McCarthy’s Essay “Transmission and the Individual Remix”
McCrea, Barry
McCullers, Carson
A riff on rereading Carson McCullers’ novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
McDonald, Sandra
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories — Sandra McDonald
McManus, James
McNaught, Jon
Jon McNaught’s Birchfield Close Is a Tranquil Visual Poem
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick: A Short Riff on a Long Book
“Half Horse Half Alligator” — I Review Charles Olson’s Inimitable Melville Study, Call Me Ishmael
Mieville, China
Perdido Street Station/The City & The City — China Miéville
Miller, Frank
Frank Miller, Fascist Mouthpiece, Is a Cranky Old Hack
Miller, Keith
Keith Miller’s The Book on Fire, A Tale of Biblioklepts, Bibliophiles, and Bibliomania
Millet, Lydia
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart — Lydia Millet
Mitchell, David
David Mitchell’s New Novel The Bone Clocks Falls Far Short of His Best Work
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — David Mitchell
Moore, Alan and Eddie Campbell
From Hell — Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
Morrison, Toni
Muradov, Roman
Roman Muradov’s graphic novella Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art reviewed
Roman Muradov’s Enigmatic Graphic Novella (In a Sense) Lost and Found Reviewed
Murakami, Haruki
Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Reviewed
Murdoch, Iris
A few paragraphs on beginning Iris Murdoch’s novel The Bell
A review of Iris Murdoch’s novel The Bell
Murnane, Gerald
On a passage from Gerald Murnane’s short story “Stream System”
“A Country On The Far Side of Fiction” — Riffing Over Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch
Riffing Over Gerald Murnane’s Inland
Mutis, Álvaro
Pleasure and Sorrow in Álvaro Mutis’s Novella The Tramp Steamer’s Last Port of Call
A Lazy Riff on the First Three of Álvaro Mutis’s Maqroll Novellas
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll — Álvaro Mutis
Myers, Walter Dean
A review of João Gilberto Noll’s surreal novella Quiet Creature on the Corner
Novy, Adam
I Review The Avian Gospels, Adam Novy’s Dystopian Novel About Family, Torture, Rebellion, and Birds
Flann O’Brien’s Novel At Swim-Two-Birds Is a Postmodernist Masterpiece of Comic Storytelling
Flann O’Brien’s Novel The Third Policeman Is a Surreal Comic Masterpiece
O’Brien, Tim
Review: Tim O’Brien’s Novel The Things They Carried, Read by Bryan Cranston
O’Connor, Flannery
Ogawa, Yoko
Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge Is an Elegant Collection of Creepy Intertextual Tales
Okrent, Arika
In the Land of Invented Languages — Arika Okrent
Olson, Charles
“Half Horse Half Alligator” — I Review Charles Olson’s Inimitable Melville Study, Call Me Ishmael
Orbach, Susie
Perec, Georges
Something on Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure
Phillips, Adam and Barbara Taylor
On Kindness — Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
Pietroni, Anna Lawrence
Ruby’s Spoon — Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Prassino, Gisele
A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
Proust, Marcel
Unknown Pleasures (I Riff a Bit on Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way)
Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time — Patrick Alexander
Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials Trilogy — Philip Pullman
Pynchon, Thomas
A completely subjective and thoroughly unnecessary ranking of Thomas Pynchon’s novels
A last riff (for now) on Gravity’s Rainbow (and Disney’s Fantasia)
What the hell is Pynchon in Public Day?
In which I read Playboy for the Thomas Pynchon article
A first riff on rereading Gravity’s Rainbow (and some thoughts on Weisenburger’s Companion)
Riff on the end/beginning of Gravity’s Rainbow
A scattered riff on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow
A rambling and possibly incoherent riff on Inherent Vice (film and novel) and The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (Third Riff)
Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (Second Riff)
Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (First Riff)
List of Possible Descriptors for Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Against the Day
The Collective Dream of the Chums of Chance (A Short Pynchon Riff)
“Smite early and often” (Another Riff on Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day)
“…he enjoyed a sort of dual existence” (Another Riff on Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day)
Inherent Vice — Thomas Pynchon
My Year of Flops — Nathan Rabin
Raskin, Andy
The Ramen King and I — Andy Raskin
Reed, Ishmael
A review of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Ishmael Reed’s syncretic Neo-HooDoo revenge Western
A review of Ishmael Reed’s Christmas satire, The Terrible Twos
Reibstein, Mark and Ed Young
Wabi Sabi – Mark Reibstein and Ed Young
Rich, Simon
Yeah Yeah YA — New Novels from Laurence Gonzales and Simon Rich
Rice, Anne
Rosero, Evelio
Rourke, Lee
Ryback, Timothy W.
Hitler’s Private Library — Timothy W. Ryback
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild — Lee Sandlin
Satrapi, Marjane
Chicken with Plums – Marjane Satrapi
Saunders, George
Jangly George Saunders — Tenth of December Reviewed
Sayrafiezadhe, Said
When Skateboards Will Be Free — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Schmidt, Arno
>intoxication o’r dizziness< | On “starting” Arno Schmidt’s enormous novel Bottom’s Dream
Schofield, Bob
The Inevitable June — Bob Schofield
Schwartz, Jason
Jason Schwartz’s John the Posthumous Is a Dark, Disarming Novella
Sebald, W.G.
The Rings of Saturn — W.G. Sebald
I Review Patience (After Sebald), an Oppressively Overstylized Documentary
W.G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity — J.J. Long
Segal, Lore
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Dash
Shields, David
Reality Hunger — David Shields
Shteyngart, Gary
I Super Hated Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
Shuker, Carl
Carl Shuker’s Anti Lebanon Reviewed
Sim, Dave
Singh, Mahendra
In American Candide, Mahendra Singh reboots Voltaire’s classic satire
The Hunting of the Snark — Lewis Carroll (with Surreal New Illustrations by Mahendra Singh)
Simon, Scott
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other — NPR’s Scott Simon’s New Memoir in Praise of Adoption
Smith, Ali
Snyder, Timothy
Sontag, Susan
Spiegelman, Art
In the Shadow of No Towers — Art Spiegelman
Spillane, Mickey
The Mike Hammer Novels — Mickey Spillane
Stendhal
A short report from The Charterhouse of Parma
Another short report from The Charterhouse of Parma
Stephenson, Neal
Stott, Rebecca
The Coral Thief — Rebecca Stott
Haley Tanner’s Vaclav & Lena Is A Modern Day Fairy Tale (With Lots of Lists)
Thirlwell, Adam
The Delighted States — Adam Thirlwell
Thompson, Hunter S.
The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit Reconsidered as a Picaresque Novel
Tolstoy, Leo
Tower, Wells
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned — Wells Tower
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: One of Our Favorite Challenged Books
The Lost Art of Reading — David L. Ulin
Aurorarama — Jean-Christophe Valtat
Vollmann, William T.
William T. Vollmann’s Central Europe
How can love be self-ironic? (William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central)
Butterfly Stories — William T. Vollmann
Volodine, Antoine
Antoine Volodine’s Writers blows me away
Voltaire
Vulliamy, Ed
Amexica — Ed Vulliamy’s Violent Chronicle of the Border Wars
A brief note to readers new to Infinite Jest, including a list of motifs
On the first 299 pages of Infinite Jest
DFW’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, books as memory objects, etc.
Phantoms and Ghosts in DFW’s Novel The Pale King
A Seven Point Riff on David Foster Wallace’s David Markson Essay
The Pale King — David Foster Wallace
Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will — David Foster Wallace
The Broom of the System — David Foster Wallace
Girl With Curious Hair — David Foster Wallace
Essential Short Story Collections: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Ware, Chris
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / It All Happened So Fast
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / Disconnect
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / Two Short Loops
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / Untitled Wordless Loop
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / September 23rd, 2000
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / I just met
Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / Branford, the Best Bee in the World
Wiley, Michael
A Bad Night’s Sleep — Michael Wiley
Williams, John
I Review Stoner, John Williams’s Sad Novel About an English Professor
Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy
A review of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s collection Narcotics
Wood, James
James Wood’s The Fun Stuff Reviewed
How Fiction Works — James Wood
Woolf, Virginia
Nell Zink’s debut novel The Wallcreeper
Zola, Emile
The Belly of Paris – Émile Zola
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Abrams, JJ
Allen, Woody
Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
Anderson, Lindsay
Anderson, Paul Thomas
A review of Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Phantom Thread
A rambling and possibly incoherent riff on Inherent Vice (film and novel) and The Crying of Lot 49
A few quick thoughts on Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Inherent Vice
Reading There Will Be Blood as the expanded epilogue to Blood Meridian
A few quick thoughts on Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Inherent Vice
A Riff on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Film The Master (Including a Take on the Ending)
Anderson, Wes
I (Sort of) Review the the Trailer for Wes Anderson’s New Film, Moonrise Kingdom
Aronofsky, Darrren
Bong, Joon-ho
Campbell, Eddie
Eddie Campbell’s canon of great graphic novels, 1977-2001fi
Campion, Jane
Bright Star — Campion Does Keats
Carax, Leos
Holy Motors Is A Strange Cinematic Prayer
Carruth, Shane
A Short Riff on Shane Carruth’s Film Upstream Color
Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers’ film Hail, Caesar! adds up to less than the sum of its parts
No Country for Old Men Reconsidered
Cornish, Joe
I Review Attack the Block, A Charming, Confused Film About Teens Fighting Aliens
Cuarón, Alfonso
Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity Is a Worthy Sequel to Children of Men
Del Toro, Guillermo
Explication/Confusion of Pacific Rim in Ten Images
Fincher, David
What I Liked About that Zodiac Movie
Fresnadillo, Jaun Carlos
Mom and Pop are Zombies!–The Infanticidal Structure of 28 Weeks Later
Friedkin, William
On William Friedkin’s paranoid, claustrophobic horror flick Bug
Gee, Grant
I Review Patience (After Sebald), an Oppressively Overstylized Documentary
Glaser, Paul Michael
Is The Running Man a good film?
Glazer, Jonathan
Gondry, Michel
Gramaglia, Michael and Jim Fields
End of the Century – The Heartbreaking Story of the Ramones
Green, David Gordon
David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche Reviewed
Herrington, Rowdy
Road House, Paul Verhoeven, Modern Action Films, and The Ironic Vision of the Viewer
Herzog, Werner
Iñárritu, Alejandro González
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Film Birdman Reviewed
Jarmusch, Jim
Curation and Creation in Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch’s Vampire Film
Jodorowsky, Alejandro (Yeah, I know he wasn’t the director here but c’mon)
Johnson, Rian
The Last Jedi and the anxiety of influence
Jonze, Spike
The Abject Body and Spike Jonze’s Her
Villeneuve, Denis
Kar-Wai, Wong
Franchise Films, Alternate Worlds, and Why Wong Kar Wai Should Direct the Next Star Wars Film
Kelly, Richard
Korine, Harmony
I Am Baffled by the Trailer for Spring Breakers, the New Film from Harmony Korine
Linklater, Richard
A short riff on a favorite scene from Richard Linklater’s film Boyhood
Luhrmann, Baz
I Review the Trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s Adaptation of The Great Gatsby
Lynch, David
Malick,Terrence
The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
Days of Heaven – Terrence Malick
Melrod, Josh and Tara Wray
Miller, George
Miyazaki, Hayao
On Hayao Miyazaki’s film Porco Rosso
Extinction, Gilgamesh, Miyazaki’s Wolfchild, etc. (A Riff)
Oldroyd, William
Radford, Michael
On Michael Radford’s film adaptation of 1984
Refn, Nicolas Winding
Valhalla Rising — Nicolas Winding Refn
Reichardt, Kelly
Richter, W.D.
Buckaroo Banzai’s Marvelous End Titles Tell You Everything You Need to Know About This Strange Film
Ross, Gary
I Review The Hunger Games Film (And Mostly Complain About the Jumpy Camera Work)
Scorsese, Martin
On the postmodern comedy-horror axis of Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy
Scott, Ridley
And I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee About Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
Selick, Henry
Sokurov, Aleksander
Russian Ark — Aleksandr Sokurov
Stevenson, Robert
Tarantino, Quentin
Does anything good happen in The Hateful Eight?
Too Many Cooks
A Too Many Cooks Riff, Focusing on The Killer, Who Is There Right from the Beginning
Verhoeven, Paul
Road House, Paul Verhoeven, Modern Action Films, and The Ironic Vision of the Viewer
Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer
I Riff on the Cloud Atlas Movie
In Which I Review the Cloud Atlas Film Trailer
Wheatley, Ben
Despite our Ballardian present, the High-Rise film adaptation is a nostalgia piece
Yates, David
Harry Potter Sex Romp, Part II
Yonebayashi, Hisoama
Mary and the Witch’s Flower, a love letter to Studio Ghibli from director Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Interviews with Hideous Men — Jessica Yu’s Documentary Protagonist
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John from Cincinnati
We Review John from Cincinnati, David Milch’s Metaphysical Surf Odyssey
Mad Men
The Sopranos
We Review All Six Seasons of The Sopranos in a Relatively Short Post
The Wire
The Ring Game — Agency and Chance in Season Four of The Wire
Children Left Behind (I Riff on Season Four of The Wire)
True Detective
True Detective Season 2 is a neon noir satire.
True Detective, Bolaño’s 2666, Werewolves, Etc
“Haunted Houses” | Another True Detective Riff
A Rambling Riff on True Detective
“A Dream About Being A Person” | Another Riff on True Detective
Twin Peaks
My log has a message for you | Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 1
Westworld
A riff on the Westworld pilot, “The Original”
“A wild dream of a witch-meeting” | Westworld episode two reviewed
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Anthologies
New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus
theNewerYork, a Worthy Alternative to Your iPhone
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers
A Truth Universally Acknowledged — 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
The Paris Review Interviews, IV
The 2009 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories
The Paris Review Interviews, Volume III
Art and Photography
On Goya’s painting The Straw Man
On Balthus’s portraits of young girls reading
Riff on Goya’s Painting Highwaymen Attacking a Coach
Historic Photos of the University of Florida
Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway
Historic Photos of Florida Ghost Towns
Historic Photos of Jacksonville
Music Reviews
Christmas in the Heart — Bob Dylan
Stray Essays
On John Berryman’s Dream Song 265
On making a literary cocktail, the sherry cobbler
An analysis of William Carlos Williams’s ekphrastic poem “The Wedding Dance in the Open Air”
A review of The Paris Review’s overproduced podcast
A RIFF ON STUFF I WISH I’D WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2014
The Special Pleasures of Guest Room Reading
A Riff on What I Read (And Didn’t Read) in 2012
Three Beautiful Books For Children (and Adults)
Fifty Shades of Louisa May: A Loving Biography Masquerading as a Smutty Novelty Book
Riff on Recent Reading, 1.09.2012 (Gaddis, Vollmann, Dragons, Nausicaä, Patti Smith)
An Incomplete List of Stuff I Wish I’d Written About in 2011
Riff on Recent Reading, 12.31.2011
Books I Didn’t Read in 2011 (And Books I Will Try to Read in 2012)
The Best and Worst Film Titles of 2011
Newt’s Children, Dystopian Visions, and Greenzone America
Biblioklept Recommends Five Novels, Some of Them New, Not All of Them German
Three New Novels: Brothers, Amberville, and The Post-War Dream
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