Chuck Palahniuk’s Memoir, ‘Consider This’, Is As Unsafe As His Fiction
Chuck Palahniuk has lived some amazing stories while he has written his much-consumed stories. As we're lead to believe, anyway.
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Cecelia Ahern’s ‘Roar’ Reinforces the Normativity It Attempts to Subvert
Roar's strength is found in its depiction of empowered women, yet Ahern mistakenly centralizes a normative vision of feminism while reiterating the patriarchal control that silences her female characters' voices.
‘Pachinko’ Is a Meticulous Tapestry that Compels Our Empathy
Min Jin LeeLee balances Pachinko‘s richly textured tale with scenes of poverty and inhumane conditions endured by Koreans in Japan during WWII.
Loss of Memory and Divided Identities in Psychological Thriller ‘I Know My Name’
It's risky to build the success of a genre psychological thriller on the incorporation of psychological therapeutic techniques. But in Cooke's hands, it works.