The Crying Book by Heather Christle. Catapult, 2019. $16.95, 208 pages.
In her author’s note, Heather Christle writes that The Crying Book began as a map of all the places she has cried. Over many years, the book grew to …
Book Review
The Myth of New Orleans at Year 301
Robert Azzarello
Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World LSU Press, 2019 224 Pages
Thomas Jessen Adams and Matt Sakakeeny, eds. Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Duke University Press, 2019 368 Pages
T.R. …
Weather
Weather, by Jenny Offill. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, 2020. $23.95, 224 pages.
Sometimes a novel comes along out of nowhere and shocks you and shatters your heart. A few years back, one of those novels was Jenny Offill’s …
In the Dream House
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Graywolf Press, 2019. 264 pages.
Those familiar with Carmen Maria Machado’s work have become comfortable with the distasteful, with the unfamiliar, and with the pseudo-absurd. Her first short story collection, Her Body …
Big Windows
Big Windows, by Lauren Moseley. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. $15.95, 72 pages.
Animals—a jackal, a bear, a panther, a bobcat, a coyote—stalk through the poems in Lauren Moseley’s remarkable, unsettling recent collection Big Windows (Carnegie Mellon University Press, …
The End of Peril, The End of Enmity, The End of Strife, A Haven
The End of Peril, The End of Enmity, The End of Strife, A Haven by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint.
Noemi Press, 2018. $15, 112 pages.
In an interview with Entropy for her debut novel The End of Peril, The End …
The Impossible Fairy Tale
The Impossible Fairy Tale, by Han Yujoo (translated from the Korean by Janet Hong). Graywolf Press, 2017. $16, 192 pages.
In a moment when we are questioning the authority of narrators both on the page and in the world, Han …
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, 2018. 304 pages, $26.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is the story of a nameless young woman as she attempts to engage in a year-long experiment in …
Dog Symphony
Dog Symphony, by Sam Munson. New Directions, 2018. 132 pages, $14.95.
Sam Munson’s Dog Symphony is a novel about state violence and hegemony, citizenship, and how these things disintegrate human personal identity. Its protagonist, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (named after the …
Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg
Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, by Stephanie Dickinson. New Michigan Press, 2013. 63 pages, $9.
At the age of 17 in 1957, Jean Seberg was cast to play Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s film Saint Joan. A …
