Outliers & Explorers | Review of My Back Pages by Steven Moore — Jeff Bursey
At the vanguard of criticism... The post Outliers & Explorers | Review of My Back Pages by Steven Moore — Jeff Bursey appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleUnbearable Transience of Being | Review of Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto...
Unnerving but starkly beautiful. The post Unbearable Transience of Being | Review of Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll — Joseph Schreiber appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleA Poem in Each Hand | Review of Fleda Brown’s The Woods Are On Fire — Julie...
Wonder, hope and heart. The post A Poem in Each Hand | Review of Fleda Brown’s The Woods Are On Fire — Julie Larios appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleHow Swiss Is It? | Review of Walks with Robert Walser by Carl Seelig — Dorian...
Walking, talking with Walser. The post How Swiss Is It? | Review of Walks with Robert Walser by Carl Seelig — Dorian Stuber appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleThe Other in Oneself | Review of Compass by Mathias Énard — Frank Richardson
We’ve always burned people alive, beheaded them, gassed them, and Énard doesn’t fail to remind us. The post The Other in Oneself | Review of Compass by Mathias Énard — Frank Richardson appeared first...
View ArticleVertical Resonance | Review of The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep by Steven...
A species hellbent on escaping... The post Vertical Resonance | Review of The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep by Steven Heighton — Richard Farrell appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleA Place of Healing | Review of Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss — Rohan...
...deliberate, restrained, well-crafted. The post A Place of Healing | Review of Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss — Rohan Maitzen appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleO Pioneer! | Review of 1944 Diary by Hans Keilson — Dorian Stuber
His very language in the diary entry confirms that sense of a split self. The post O Pioneer! | Review of 1944 Diary by Hans Keilson — Dorian Stuber appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleConsciously Amateurish | Review of The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan — Jason...
The intimacy of his voice is a lullaby. The post Consciously Amateurish | Review of The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan — Jason Lucarelli appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleSomething out of Nothing | Review of The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán —...
Is there anything as irreal as so-called realism? The post Something out of Nothing | Review of The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán — Benjamin Woodard appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleAn Incomplete Life | Review of Ernesto by Umberto Saba — Melissa Considine Beck
...important, historical piece of gay lit. The post An Incomplete Life | Review of Ernesto by Umberto Saba — Melissa Considine Beck appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleKeeping Promises | Review of one of us is wave one of us is shore by Geneva...
one of us is wave one of us is shore Geneva Chao Otis Books, Seismicity Editions, 2016 67 pages; $12.95 . Maybe we dive past one another without seeing, as in Geneva Chao’s investigative book-length...
View ArticleDo Not Feed the Ism | Review of Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy...
McCarthy’s MC Hammer-Conrad connection speaks to the collection’s willingness to not only grant credence to the highbrow and the lowbrow in equal measure, but is also a call to ignore brow-ness...
View ArticleSacred Inertia | Review of I Am the Brother of XX & These Possible Lives by...
Her new short story collection, I Am the Brother of XX, serves to showcase her exceptional ability to create an atmosphere of brittle, gothic claustrophobia with a contained, simmering intimation of...
View ArticleChanneling Jane | Jane Austen the Radical & Jane at Home — Laura Michele Diener
Every biographer, in possession of the exact same sources, must find an entirely different character. The post Channeling Jane | Jane Austen the Radical & Jane at Home — Laura Michele Diener...
View ArticleThe Wacky Beetle | Review of For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi —...
The journey during which truths are revealed. The post The Wacky Beetle | Review of For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi — Natalia Sarkissian appeared first on Numéro Cinq.
View ArticleThe Wrong Balcony | Review of Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by...
...working hard on both poetry and her love life, less so on her reputation. The post The Wrong Balcony | Review of Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall — Julie Larios appeared...
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