Flashes of War by Katey Schultz (Apprentice House, May 2013) Review by Brett Sholtis Reflections in Broken Glass Describing Flashes of War as a short story collection is kind of like calling Pink Floyd’s The Wall “a bunch of…
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Hannibal and Me by Andreas Kluth
Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach us About Success and Failure by Andreas Kluth (Riverhead Books, January 2013) Review by Clinton Coggins Kluth’s Triumvirate, or Somewhere in the Alps There are 20 Dead War Elephants The…
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Oxford University Press, 2007) Review by Caroline Benner Wolff “What makes a book come to life for you? Robinson Crusoe is in that rare and enviable position of having a to-do list that he…
The Way the Cheshire Cat Leaves Its Grin: An Interview with Peter Trachtenberg
By Nichole Faina University of Pittsburgh faculty member Peter Trachtenberg is the author of three books, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh, The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and Its Meaning and his latest, Another Insane Devotion,…
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Last Call in the City of Bridges by Salvatore Pane
Last Call in the City of Bridges by Salvatore Pane (Braddock Avenue Books, November 2012) Review by Shannon Reed Uncommon Books, Uncommon Readers A believable narrative voice is an aspect of writing a novel that proves most tricky for…
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Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Arcadia by Lauren Groff (Voice/Hyperion, March 2012) Review by Jennifer Bannan A Man among Earth Mothers Largely from the point of view of a child? Not usually for me. More than 30 characters to know and track? No thank…
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Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy
Seige 13 by Tamas Dobozy (Milkweed Editions, February 2013) Review by Tyler McAndrew Tributaries of the Danube In her BookRiot article from 2012, “Short Stories, You So Trendy,” Kit Steinkellner claims that the linked short story collection is perhaps—as…
The Way of the Dog by Sam Savage
The Way of the Dog by Sam Savage (Coffeehouse Press, January 2013) Review by Jacob Spears A Dogged Invective Since 2005, Sam Savage has been crawling out from underneath the floorboards of American fiction with short, vitriolic and scrappy…
You Might Have Missed… Things That Are
Things That Are by Amy Leach (Milkweed Editions 2012) Reviewed by Amanda Giracca Everything Becomes Erstwhile Reading Things That Are, the first essay collection from writer Amy Leach, you might get the creeping sense that these essays are being narrated…
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Varamo
Varamo by César Aira Translation by Chris Andrews (New Directions Press, February 2012) Jon Vander Woude A Tiny Masterpiece The Argentinian writer, César Aira, writes bizarre and slender novels that are a welcome reprieve from the steady deluge of expansive…