The Most Dangerous Book by Kevin Birmingham
The Most Dangerous Book, The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, should be understood as broader...
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Author: Dennis Haritou
Mount Terminus by David Grand
Mount Terminus is an allegorical novel that’s at its best when it’s not. At times, it reminded me...
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The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
They liked movies from the 80’s: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Last Starfighter, Sixteen Candles,...
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Debarking by Lorrie Moore
“All his tin-penny miseries and chicken shit joys would lead him once again to Sparky’s.” Ira has...
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Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
Writer talking…through her character: “And I thought that the substantial outward things...
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Bingo’s Run by James A. Levine
“You feel doubt. You feel shame-for what? Come sit beside me. Do not worry about the dirt-you were...
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The Scent of Pine by Lara Vapnyar
The Scent of Pine reminded me of the stories of Sana Krasikov, who has been discussed on this...
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The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
The Crane Wife is nominally based on an old Japanese folk tale that Patrick Ness has taken as his...
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The Antiquarian by Gustavo Faveron Patriau
You know what music built on a chromatic scale is like? I’m listening to some now. It’s dark,...
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Mass Distribution and the Survival of the Text
I was wondering lately about the distribution of books. How it strikes me as funny that you have...
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The Accident by Chris Pavone
I’ve never encountered an embargoed book that was worth the embargo from the point of view of the...
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Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
This Europa release is Book Two of the Neapolitan Novels. I’d rather call it Book Two in the...
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Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush
I was won over by Subtle Bodies early and what did it was the elf shoes. Nina is enroute to...
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Interview with Jonathan Grimwood
DH: Jonathan, thanks so much for considering my questions about The Last Banquet. In writing about...
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Morphine By Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov is a landmark twentieth century writer. You could be excused from knowing that if...
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Victory by Yu Hua
“Victory”, which can be found in the August 26th issue of the New Yorker, opens like a venerable...
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Interview with Stephane Michaka
Stephane Michaka is a gracious and thoughtful French writer whose novel about the complex...
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An Interview with Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the widely praised memoir, When Skateboards Will be Free....
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The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
Perhaps in an ancient land like Croatia it’s easier to find stories underneath stories. Especially...
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Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas
Mother, Mother is the debut novel by Koren Zailckas, the bestselling writer of the memoir,...
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Scissors by Stephane Michaka
The take-off point for Stephane Michaka’s novel is the agonistic relationship between Raymond...
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The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood
On October 1st, Europa Editions will release its first cloth title. There’s 45K announced first...
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TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
The first thing I noticed is how beautifully it’s written. This confidently brilliant novel with...
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The Prologue to Marisha Pessl’s Night Film
The quotation that opens Pessl’s second novel is by a fictional character, Stanislas Cordova, who...
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