National Treasures by Charles McLeod
Malcolm Forbes reviews Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Malcolm Forbes' reviews and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the San Francisco Chronicle, The National, The Australian, The Daily Beast, the Quarterly Conversation and many other journals. Born in Edinburgh, he currently lives in Berlin.
Helga’s Diary by Helga Weiss
Malcolm Forbes reviews Helga Weiss's HELGA'S DIARY today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky by Dan Beachy-Quick
Malcolm Forbes reviews Dan Beachy-Quick's AN IMPENETRABLE SCREEN OF PUREST SKY today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
The Rumpus Interview with Ramona Ausubel
Our lives can be as wild or as wacky as Ramona Ausubel’s fictive worlds, but in the end, as one of her characters puts it, "Everyone wants to be alone in someone else’s heart."
“Open Heart,” by Elie Wiesel
When eighty-two-year-old Elie Wiesel was told he needed emergency heart surgery he was surprised rather than afraid.
Havana Requiem, by Paul Goldstein
Legal eagle Michael Seeley is on his last chance. His Manhattan law firm has warily agreed to take him back but his probation means reining in the waywardness and alcoholism…
Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery by Bill Clegg
There is a moment in Junky in which a psychiatrist asks William Burroughs’ narrator why he needs narcotics. His answer is to get out of bed in the morning, to…
The New Gilded Class
Christina Alger’s debut The Darlings follows the Darling family headed by a billionaire financier through the financial crisis. Luckily, these rich people are really screwed up.
Perceptive and Prophetic
Hesperus Press collected four long-neglected critical essays for their new collection, Virginia Woolf’s On Fiction. Her criticism, like her fiction, is an utter delight.
Fitzgerald’s Lost Road Trip
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long-lost account, The Cruise of the Rolling Junk, follows Zelda and Scott on an eventful road trip in the 1920s.
Toteninsel in English
New in English, Gerhard Meier’s 1979 Isle of the Dead recalls W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn as two friends traverse their town, discussing nature and death in elegant prose.