HORN! REVIEWS: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
[T]hese stories skewer clergy and gentry, delight in appetites, and dare to ask, an even answer, “Why am I human?”
...more[T]hese stories skewer clergy and gentry, delight in appetites, and dare to ask, an even answer, “Why am I human?”
...moreThe dystopia is granularly brutal, its causes and effects sadly plausible.
...moreA beautifully illustrated review of Barbara Browning’s The Gift from HORN! Reviews.
...moreScientists and laypeople need to come together to save our democracy, if not our planet.
...moreClarissa Dalloway, whose art form is social life, steps outside on a June day…
...moreThe ‘how’ of this story is fascinating, but the ‘what’ is too sad to think about: the methodical dismantling of Russian democracy.
...moreAs the musician says to the novelist, “I was born. I must die. I am suffering. Help me.”
...moreIt’s as if Roth, in 2004, had inhaled a Delphic vapor to bring us this vision of an alternate then so eerily like our now.
...moreWhat will happen to all that beauty?
...moreHere’s a vision of a nightmare Benthamist future where nothing is allowed to be slow or sad…
...moreThis is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time.
...moreHORN! Reviews brings us another beautiful illustrated review, this time of Diego Zúñiga’s Camanchaca, translated by Megan McDowell.
...moreWhat started as an update of “The Lottery” for the Vietnam era is now a guidebook to a country that has obviated satire.
...more“Laugh and get depressed. Get depressed and laugh. What else was there to do?”
...moreBut we don’t always behave rationally; sometimes we let pheromones, Klonopin, and the Yahtzee gods decide for us.
...moreCardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more…
...moreThis book is the product of twenty-three years of writing and running—6 miles a day, 6 days a week.
...moreShin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography, and folklore to unlock the titular emotion…
...more…like any great idea, it has the potential to be more boon than burden…
...moreTextbooks obfuscate the past, making science seem a smooth and cumulative process.
...moreSince I’m nowhere near the first, let me be only the most recent to entreat you to read the story of Lenú…
...more…but when the only time you felt alive was the time you nearly died, what do you do?
...moreOn the eponymous night before, the sleepy town of Fürstenfelde is wide awake.
...moreStart the outboard motor—it’s time to go island-hopping with Kate Ennis, the postmodern Penelope.
...more…true love isn’t necessarily impossible, but time and contingency make impossible love sadly true.
...moreYes, Frankenstein was the birth of a genre, but this book is even more visionary: centuries ahead of its time.
...moreBut pollen can get inside the green wall, and so can drink, smoke, color, unsanctioned sex, and history.
...moreWhile they run the gamut of genres, these stories all lie in the same orbit of dark gravity…
...moreHORN! Reviews brings us an illustrated review of Simon Critchley’s Bowie.
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