J.D. Ho looks at capitalism and American hubris in Clifford Garstang's "House of the Ancients and Other Stories."
On Their Worst Behavior: Clifford Garstang’s House of the Ancients and Other Stories
Literature
Art and Futility: A Review of Juan Cárdenas’s Ornamental, Translated by Lizzie Davis
Dashiel Carrera looks at the recent translation of Juan Cárdenas's psychological, dystopian novel "Ornamental," from Coffeehouse Press.
Looking the Wrong Way: A Review of Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell by Spitzenprodukte
Ross McElwain reviews Spitzenprodukte's latest novel, set in the inner circles of the UK government around 2015.
A Respite for Refugees: The Sun and Her Stars
Chris Yogerst reviews Donna Rifkind's "The Sun and Her Stars," a story of Jewish émigrés and the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Five Griefs: A Review of Orange by E. Briskin
J.D. Ho takes a look at the experimental style of "Orange" by E. Briskin.
El Misterio Nadal: A Lost and Rescued Book by Roberto Bolaño
Anthony Seidman takes a look at "the effluvium of voices, genres, deserts, jungles, and cities of the imagination" in "El Misterio Nadal."
An Odyssey Through Central Asia: Erika Fatland’s Sovietistan
Tamerlane Salyk reviews the tour of the "stans" in "Sovietstan," a travelogue by Erika Fatland, translated by Kari Dickson.
