Los Angeles Review of BooksWest Virginia University On Choice, Children, and Womanhood: A Conversation with Christa Parravani - Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org - Kelly Thompson interviews Christa Parravani CHRISTA PARRAVANI’S SEMINAL Guernica essay published last year, “Life and Death in West Virginia,” was my introduction to this author and inspired me …
Los Angeles Review of BooksBooks Psychopathic High Strangeness: On Jeremy Robert Johnson’s “The Loop” - Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org - By Matt E. Lewis UNBEKNOWNST TO THE general reading public, something has been growing for two decades under their radar. Originally birthed in Oregon, its tentacles …
Los Angeles Review of BooksWriting Exhausting the Vein of Realism: A Conversation with Lynne Sharon Schwartz - Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org - Rachel Cline interviews Lynne Sharon Schwartz I DON’T KNOW when I first became aware of Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s writing, but it was probably sometime between 1980, when Raymond Carver lauded her …
Los Angeles Review of BooksShirley Jackson Allegories of Otherness: The Unnerving Isolation of Marie NDiaye’s “That Time of Year” - Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org - By Nathan Scott McNamara MARIE NDIAYE, AUTHOR OF around 20 books and plays, was born in Pithiviers, France, population just a little over 9,000, about 50 miles outside Paris. …
Los Angeles Review of BooksNorway Pass Us the Post Horn: On Vigdis Hjorth’s “Long Live the Post Horn!” - Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org - By Makenna Goodman MY HUSBAND SAID to me in bed last night: “It’s possible I’m not a reader.” He had just put down another novel after 10 pages, unable to connect with …
Los Angeles Review of BooksIstanbul The Light in Istanbul: On Orhan Pamuk’s “Orange” - Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org - By Jonah Goldman Kay AT THE TURN of the 20th century, Eugène Atget wandered Paris photographing the medieval structures soon to be subsumed by the city’s rapid …
