Mad Mad Mitfords | Review of The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by...
Captivated some of the brightest, the best, and the evilest men and women of her age. The post Mad Mad Mitfords | Review of The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson — Laura Michele...
View ArticleAlways Hinting | Review of Loving by Henry Green — Dorian Stuber
Green’s prose disguises its strangeness as ordinariness. His ostensibly straightforward prose is profoundly unsettling and unusually hard to parse. The longer we pause over a sentence the weirder it...
View ArticleWhile the Cat’s Away | Review of The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika...
Traditional values and modern manners clash throughout the pages of this engrossing book, leading to a shocking finale. The post While the Cat’s Away | Review of The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by...
View ArticleHell and Back | Review of American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag —...
To think that this horde of precious and irreplaceable books was sitting in the woods less than 2 hours away from my home in New England sends chills down my spine. The post Hell and Back | Review of...
View ArticleA Shadow Text: Review of The Book of Things by Ilhan Berk — D. M. Spitzer
The Book of Things enters the agonistics of English language poetry not as a Berkian, but rather a Messoan text, an English text on the scene of English language poetry. The post A Shadow Text: Review...
View ArticleEver-Present Loss: Review of Among the Dead and Dreaming by Samuel Ligon—Dawn...
A writer’s obsessions are inescapable; his are desire and peril, tinted noir. The post Ever-Present Loss: Review of Among the Dead and Dreaming by Samuel Ligon—Dawn Raffel appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleBurlesques Of Togetherness: Review of Assisted Living by Gary Lutz — Jason...
The truest satisfaction from reading Gary Lutz comes from considering how the text was made. The post Burlesques Of Togetherness: Review of Assisted Living by Gary Lutz — Jason Lucarelli appeared first...
View ArticleReview of Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki...
“How did I learn to write?” Murakami asks. “By listening to music." The post Review of Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami—Carolyn Ogburn appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleNecessary Truths | Review of Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías — Frank Richardson
We all have secrets we would never divulge and secrets we wish had never been revealed. That we cannot fully know another is axiomatic... The post Necessary Truths | Review of Thus Bad Begins by Javier...
View ArticleDo We Give A Fuck About Fucking Anymore? | Review of Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy...
...orgasm which experience we seek over and over again. The post Do We Give A Fuck About Fucking Anymore? | Review of Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy — Melissa Considine Beck appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleA Pirate Critic | Review of Beyond the Blurb by Daniel Green — Jeff Bursey
A pirate navigating waterways ruled by this or that thalassocracy... The post A Pirate Critic | Review of Beyond the Blurb by Daniel Green — Jeff Bursey appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleSomething Survives | Review of The Némirovsky Question by Susan Rubin...
...increasingly relevant in a world that continues to yield refugees and exiles. The post Something Survives | Review of The Némirovsky Question by Susan Rubin Suleiman — Laura Michele Diener appeared...
View ArticleCries of a mind…leaping out of its lodgings | Review of Drawn from Life,...
...uncannily accurate prose. The post Cries of a mind…leaping out of its lodgings | Review of Drawn from Life, Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Linda E. Chown appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleDancing the Numbers: Review of The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee —...
No one in this novel is clearly named or called Jesus. Only the title teases that one of the characters is, perhaps, the historical Jesus. The post Dancing the Numbers: Review of The Schooldays of...
View ArticleAbandonment Begets Abandonment: Review of Abandon Me by Melissa Febos —...
The best parts of this book make no sense at all. That’s what I mean by ambitious. The post Abandonment Begets Abandonment: Review of Abandon Me by Melissa Febos — Carolyn Ogburn appeared first on...
View ArticleLove in the Time of Drought | Review of The Long Dry by Cynan Jones — Mark...
...a dark, brooding, brutal and devastating novel. The post Love in the Time of Drought | Review of The Long Dry by Cynan Jones — Mark Sampson appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleThe End of Boredom | Review of Spoils by Brian Van Reet — Michael Carson
Black blood. Stringy flesh. Clutching. Entangling. Stumbling. Close-third person. Present tense. A hot center. The post The End of Boredom | Review of Spoils by Brian Van Reet — Michael Carson appeared...
View ArticleJust Water, Water Everywhere | Review of Blue Field by Elise Levine —...
A tale of self-destruction and hubris, and it is absolutely gripping. The post Just Water, Water Everywhere | Review of Blue Field by Elise Levine — Benjamin Woodard appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleMaking Myself Happy | Review of Make Yourself Happy by Eleni Sikelianos —...
Of happiness, what have we lost? What wilds it? // My loves The post Making Myself Happy | Review of Make Yourself Happy by Eleni Sikelianos — Julie Larios appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleLife In a Northern Town | Review of Frontier by Can Xue — Joseph Schreiber
Can Xue’s fiction requires a surrender of the norms expected... The post Life In a Northern Town | Review of Frontier by Can Xue — Joseph Schreiber appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
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