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Fiction September 7, 2016
Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars
Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?
Ben Ehrenreich
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May 25, 2016
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Fiction February 4, 2016
Vladimir Sorokin’s Absurdist Excess
Even the Russian author’s most sincere explorations tend toward brutal deadpan satire, cartoonish extremes of violence, comically unsexy sex, and flatulence.
Ben Ehrenreich
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October 1, 2015
Literature as Map to Liberty
In John Keene’s ambitious new volume of stories, resistance is required because exile isn’t an option.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Fiction April 30, 2014
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Autobiography and Memoir February 5, 2013
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky
A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Culture May 16, 2012
The Ravaging Nothing: On László Krasznahorkai
Satantango will devour you, you and everything you know.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Culture December 6, 2011
Eels Über Alles: On Julio Cortázar
A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Culture December 16, 2010
An Inventory of the Missing: On Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten's Self Portraits is a backward glance on life that's vital, wistful and filled with sweet ache.
Ben Ehrenreich
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Fiction November 4, 2010
Texts for Nothing? On Tom McCarthy
With C, Tom McCarthy asks us to see fiction as a crafty and adventurous playmate unafraid of its mortality.
Ben Ehrenreich