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Review of On the Clock by Claire Baglin
Review of On the Clock by Claire Baglin
On the Clock seems to transplant this sort of late modernist style from the airy realm of the nouveau roman to the world of low-wage labor.
On Joseph Andras
On Joseph Andras
Joseph Andras, a working-class neo-modernist novelist, shows us why embalming our revolutionary heroes is a mistake.
Review of Out of the Sugar Factor by Dorothee Elmiger
Review of Out of the Sugar Factor by Dorothee Elmiger
Review 31 is an online literary review.
Review of You'll Like It Here by Ashton Politanoff
Review of You'll Like It Here by Ashton Politanoff
Review 31 is an online literary review.
Review of Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
Review of Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
Review of Saint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark Haber
Review of Saint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark Haber
Review of Kong’s Finest Hour by Alexander Kluge
Review of Kong’s Finest Hour by Alexander Kluge
Review of The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Review of The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats,” somebody says a few pages into Leonora Carrington's 1974 novel The Hearing Trumpet. Most people would agree; if anything, the bad run of septuagenarians of late shows this age range is too narrow. The statement is characteristic of this chatoyant novel. Cats are everywhere in The Hearing Trumpet: their sheddings are collected to form a sleeveless cardigan; psychic powers are attributed to them; the earth freezes over and an earthquake thins out the human population, but the cats survive. Beneath its cattiness, the remark also offhandedly conflates species (the way “people” transmutes into “cats” at the end of the sentence) and recognizes the virtue of people usually excluded from civic life for being too young or too old. This broadening out of our ordinary categories of human life is at the heart of the novel. Jim Henderson reviews Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet.
Three Essays
Three Essays
Avocados “Do you know what it takes to get an apple so you can sink your beautiful teeth in it?” asks Richard Conte in Thieves’ Highway. He triumphantly came back to his Central Valley family with …
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