What happens when the illusive Zoom gods don’t cooperate — a rescue mission.
Lucas Spiro
Book Review: “Murder and the Movies” — So Cinematic, the Spectacle of Death
Our awareness of our delight in the homicidal temptations presented by film is itself a kind of twisted comedy that the critic is all too aware of.
Book Review: “Lake of Urine: A Love Story” — Breaking Established Reality
It’s hard to critique a novel that flies under such a resplendent banner, a wholesale rejection of the dead and decaying world of trends and war and meaninglessness.
Book Review: “The Fallen” — Probing Cuban Paralysis
The Fallen artfully diagnoses the spiritual and material maladies of contemporary Cuban life through the lens of a single family, a household threatened by decay, exterior and interior.
Book Review: “The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana” — A Caribbean Hamlet
Told from the perspective of the Global South, this novel enthralls as it explores the urgent economic and cultural contradictions of post-colonialism, globalization, class, and alienation.
Book Review: “Like Flies from Afar” — A Very Twisted Odyssey
This is hard-hitting neo-noir parable whose dark humor delights as it strikes at the corrupt heart of business as usual in Argentina.
Television Review: “Tiger King” — King of the American Jungle
What’s so appealing about Tiger King? Perhaps it is that the lurid goings-on are so distinctively American.
Book Review: “Four Futures” — Surprisingly Relevant ‘Social Science Fiction’
Peter Frase envisions how our current bedeviling social contradictions and economic abuses may play out in the future.
Book Review: “Strange Hotel” — Battling the Inner Critic
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
Book Review: “Klotsvog” — Confusion Reigns Supreme
Klotsvog ends up being a fascinating literary failure. Good for academics, but bad for readers.