Fiction Reviews

The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...

Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...

Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...

Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...

Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....

If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....

Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as...