Vincent Czyz

Book Review: “The Ruins of Ani” — Into the Mystic

April 19, 2019
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The Ruins of Ani illuminates one of those rare places that leaves visitors feeling they might have to dust off the word mystical to describe the experience.

Book Review: “Madonna in a Fur Coat” — Sabahattin Ali’s Extensive Epitaph

February 11, 2019
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It’s worth pointing out that Sabahattin Ali has deliberately reversed traditional gender roles in Madonna in a Fur Coat.

Book Review: “Lost Empress” — A Novel That Takes Chances

August 18, 2018
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Lost Empress’ ambition is admirable, and while the over-the-top style gets away from itself, it’s lively and sometimes entertaining.

Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.

Poetry Review: Dark Illumination in the “Punk Hotel”

October 23, 2017
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Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.

Fuse Book Review: “The Christos Mosaic”—An Exciting Historical/Theological Thriller

December 11, 2015
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The Christos Mosaic is the rare adventure story that rewards the reader’s attention by being as diverting as it is rigorously encyclopedic.

Book Review: “Counternarratives” — Stories About History’s Metamorphosis

August 5, 2015
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What John Keene has given us in Counternarratives is fearless fiction.

Book Review: “Adrift” in a Memorably Neo-Beat World

July 5, 2015
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The protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.

Book Review: Orhan Pamuk’s Memories — Istanbul the Melancholic

July 27, 2005
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By Vincent Czyz In his latest book, acclaimed writer Orhan Pamuk has penned an intriguing memoir that focuses on his relationship with Istanbul, the city in which he has always lived. Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk. Knopf. Ottoman poets were fond of referring to Istanbul, then known to the world as Constantinople,…

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