Reviews

From the early pages of the novel, she laments, “It’s a different story for rich girls, they have their ways,” which is a very elegant way of throwing one’s arms up and shouting that it isn’t fair to a world that won’t hear it.

In one of Solomon’s early lessons, he pushes Archy toward thoughts of his own mortality for the first time before offering religion as a solution to existential dread.

It’s imaginative fiction in a way that is jolting to the auto-fiction that is so prevalent today, and it allows Adam to make commentary on the disasters of human ambition.

Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late '80s and early '90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?

. . . Elkin revisits works and experiences new ones, generating dialogues between them and their artists. 

In 1979, at the age of forty-two, the distinctly American writer Don DeLillo made a change that would have a profound impact on his work: he left the United States.…

Despite the challenges presented by this novel’s wandering nature, Lispector’s stylistic feats enchants through to the end, and offers a compelling perspective on the wild magic of her voice.

In this, Cole has taken the "tragedy" of a transcontinental survivalist to spin a narrative that transcends the conventional perimeters of a novel.

Vasyakina powerfully encompasses the absurd and expansive universe of what Gogol described as the  “unbridled incomprehensible Rus,” her homeland land with its terrors, its poetry and loftiness and its magic, to the skin and bones of the tender and violent people who inhabit it.