[Review] Here Comes Everybody

by | Oct 4, 2008 | Book Review, English

Thinking back on it, I’m not sure I really learned anything new – not in terms of ideas nor anecdotes – from Here Comes Everybody. And yet I’ll probably end up buying copies for both sets of my grandparents and anyone else I care about who...
[Review] The Savage Detectives

[Review] The Savage Detectives

by | Jul 9, 2008 | Book Review, English

I’m writing this, sadly, not while sitting atop floatwood scribbling into the salty breeze of some nameless sea, but rather staring into my computer screen at a metrosexual Budapest café with expensive lamps and wi-fi. It’s exactly the type of...

On Beauty (and Irony)

by | May 30, 2008 | Book Review, English

Since my dear friend, Cindylu, just published a post titled “On Beauty”, I figure I might as well dig through my unpublished drafts and publish one with nearly the same title. I wrote this about a year and a half ago over a steaming glass of chai in Delhi,...
La Virgen de Llamas

La Virgen de Llamas

by | May 22, 2008 | Book Review

Hay dos maneras de pensar sobre la Virgen de Llamas por Chris Abani. A.) es una novela típica (y exagerada) escrito por un profesor izquierdista de la Universidad de California que se trata de la identidad, la sexualidad y la etnia. B.) es una...
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

by | Apr 12, 2004 | Book Review, English

Mercy Among the Children is a stunning novel by David Adams Richards. It has nothing to do with international conflict, but a nation at war should stare into its flame … There’s light here for anyone who can stand the considerable heat he generates. Told with racing suspense and a style that swings between gritty realism and Old Testament myth, Mercy Among the Children is a bitter antidote to the proud slogans of war between neighbors or nations. Here is the reason to read fiction.