Stories By Garan Holcombe
Fiction Reviews
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
June 6, 2026The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
Fiction Reviews
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
June 5, 2026One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
June 5, 2026The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
Fiction Reviews
So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor
June 2, 2026David and Eleanor’s story is an unremarkable one. But their ordinary disappointments and frustrations are precisely...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
December 20, 2025Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
Biography
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
December 17, 2025Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
Movies & TV
Spanish Cinema: Almodóvar and Amenábar
December 15, 2025With camp, hedonistic and sexually vulgar films, notable for their strong, flamboyant women and their comic,...
Fiction Reviews
The Collector by John Fowles
December 10, 2025Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
March 11, 2025The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
March 10, 2025He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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