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The Rat's Nest

A Review of Stolen Pleasures by Gina Berriault

July 2, 2018

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

(Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2011) When I cracked open Stolen Pleasures, all I knew about Gina Berriault was that she was a California writer, a “writer’s writer” decked out with major awards but missing the name recognition to match. Before I … Continued

A Review of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky

May 1, 2017

Marion Wyce

Translated from the German by Tim Mohr (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2011) What about me? That was the question my boyfriend’s ten-year-old brother, J., asked approximately three dozen times over the short weekend during which we saw him recently. … Continued

A Review of Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmila Ulitskaya

March 26, 2015

Josh Billings

Translated from the Russian by Arch Tait (New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2011) Miracles abound in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s new novel, Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Early on, Daniel Stein—a young Polish priest who has been forced to become a translator for the … Continued

Conversation with Dana Spiotta About Stone Arabia

May 7, 2014

Zachary Lazar

When I first started Dana Spiotta’s new novel, Stone Arabia, it called to mind Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street, another exploration of rock and roll—its fascination, its inarticulate articulateness, its enigmatic pull. That’s how I was reading it for the … Continued

Love Story

September 10, 2013

Chris Tarry

“Where were you last night?” It’s not that she cared. His absence hadn’t kept her up. She’d fallen asleep as usual to the Home Shopping Network, last chance at that dragonfly brooch for only $19.95. She’d woken with the credit … Continued

Grief: A Celebration

September 10, 2013

Craig Morgan Teicher

Heaven must be dying on time at the end of a long life, family at one’s hands, goodbyes hovering like hummingbirds, which, if one is absolutely still, sometimes land on a finger and sip honey as if from nowhere. One … Continued

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