Caging Kafka
Kafka’s protagonists, both human and animal, often find themselves caged.
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Oct 126 min read
Sally Rooney in Captivity
Sally Rooney’s new book wriggles under new (and old) constraints.
Oct 36 min read
In Pursuit of Nothing
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, had knockout feet. Few who saw them in action would deny it.
Sep 38 min read
In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)
Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.
Aug 247 min read
Pimping unfinished business: Elias Canetti's "The Book Against Death"
Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.
Apr 57 min read
"Splinters": The Opposite of a Cocktail-Party
Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.
Oct 21, 20239 min read
New Caribbean Realism
The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.
Oct 7, 20235 min read
Sharing Space: The House on Via Gemito
SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.
Aug 3, 20237 min read
After the Jazz Age Ended: Fleeting Fame, Photography, and Launderettes
KAT FRIEGE- The British photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer had an artistic eye.
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