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Joseph Scapellato’s ‘The Made-Up Man’ Brings Forth 21st Century Absurdism

Joseph Scapellato’s ‘The Made-Up Man’ Brings Forth 21st Century Absurdism

In rendering his most avant-garde characters as members of a kind of self-help conspiracy in The Made-Up Man, Joseph Scapellato offers not an update but a revision of absurdism, and as such, many social phenomena ripe for satire get off easy.

Soul Murder and Dreams in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Soul Murder and Dreams in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Like the cobwebs and spider webs that colonize a neglected basement, Haruki Murakami’s filamentous plot threads trail uncannily across our psyches.

The Price of Apathy

Kafka Noir: ‘The Sickroom’ and ‘A Country Doctor’

Lemon Tree

The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell