Short Story Reverence: Nancy Reisman’s “Illumination”
Teaching short stories for the university setting is one of my favorite aspects of my profession, [Read More]
Three-Sentence Review
Sophocles’ Antigone, Modernized
Seamus Heaney brings his skill of translation to the ancient Greek tragedy, “Antigone,” [Read More]
Suddenly, A Review (Suddenly, A Knock on the Door: Stories by Etgar Keret)
On the surface, Etgar Keret’s stories aren’t so much stories as they are fabular [Read More]
Curious George (Tenth of December by George Saunders)
In his latest collection, Tenth of December (Random House), George Saunders pulls back on some of [Read More]
Tender as the Night (Tell Everyone I Said Hi by Chad Simpson)
In a word: tender. That’s how we’d describe the stories in Chad Simpson‘s new [Read More]
No Common Reader (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998) collects eighteen [Read More]
Flame On, Alphabet! Kill! Kill! (The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus)
Reviewers and interviewers are billing Ben Marcus’ new novel The Flame Alphabet (Knopf) as a [Read More]
Tate Street 