Gregory Brown

The American Uncanny (American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen)

Rivka Galchen’s uncanny collection of stories contains several contemporary, feminist riffs on classic short stories, including Gogol's "The Nose" and Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." [Read More]

May 25, 2015

Won’t You Come and Wash Away the Rain? (Black Hole by Charles Burns)

Charles Burns' twelve-issue comic book series follows a group of teenagers in 1970s Seattle as they face the unusual tribulations of adolescence: A sexually-transmitted infection known as "The Bug" which causes strange mutations. [Read More]

April 27, 2015

All This Was A Long Time Ago (What I Want to Tell Goes Like This: Stories by Matt Rader)

Matt Rader's debut story collection splits its attention between early twentieth century labor disputes and modern-day Vancouver Island. [Read More]

April 20, 2015

History Lesson (The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King)

Thomas King's knack for humor and pathos brings us face to face with North America's awful historical and present-day treatment of Native peoples. [Read More]

April 20, 2015

A Dentist Walks into a Bar (To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris)

“A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be. That he’s also half mortician is the secret he keeps to himself.” -- Dr. Paul O'Rourke, DDS. (from Joshua Ferris' To Rise Again at a Decent Hour) [Read More]

April 20, 2015

Review Mondays: April Preview

Every Monday, Tate Street publishes reviews of our favorite books. Check out what we'll be reading in April. [Read More]

April 6, 2015

A Strange Object Covered with Fur (Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood)

Discover the startling weirdness of Patricia Lockwood's Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexual, which rewrites nature poetry as outlandish fantasy. [Read More]

March 23, 2015

How Do You Stand in Relation to the Potato? (The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell)

Padget Powell's hilarious novel (?) asks question after question after question after question... [Read More]

March 23, 2015

To Perceive Is to Suffer (The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison)

Leslie Jamison's extraordinary essay collection combines the personal essay, reportage, cultural criticism, and philosophy to examine human empathy. [Read More]

March 16, 2015

Three Reasons to Get in Trouble (Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link)

Kelly Link's new collection of story mash-ups treats genre conventions with wit and care. [Read More]

March 9, 2015

Articles by Gregory Brown