‘Tastes Like Chicken’ Will Have You Wanting Seconds
All the great information in Emelyn Rude's Tastes Like Chicken is distractingly indulgent and at times appears to lack direction.
J. MacDonald Lee
‘Multiple Choice’ Is Like a Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock Painting
This sparse, abstract literary text gives us ample room to interpret and to question the very notion of interpretation.
Press ‘A’ for Characterization: Video Games, Fiction and Drew Magary’s ‘The Hike’
The story in Drew Magary's The Hike is a sequence of separate, cool ideas strung together tenuously with flimsy video game logic.
Never Again, Until Next Time
David Rieff's exploratory work in In Praise of Forgetting seeks to map the ways in which historical memory acts upon us and can be acted upon.
Modiano’s ‘Villa Triste’ and the Dull Flâneur
The protagonist in Patrick Modiano's Villa Triste is a monomaniacal flâneur in world shrunk to a few predictable details.
Fictional Works of Ernest Hemingway Are Outed as Fiction
Verna Kale's Ernest Hemingway is a formidable counter argument to those who erroneously believe the Hemingway oeuvre is memoir masquerading as fiction.
Christopher Hitchens’ Posthumous Anthology, ‘And Yet…’, and Yet There Is More
Why reprint what's already available, as done here, if a bounty of miscellanea is still uncollected?