Books Italo Calvino and the Secret of "Cozy" Fiction No lattes needed. By Typebar_Admin / 25 May 2025
Books Legends, Lattes, and Lament: The Necessity of Pain in "Cozy" Fiction Cozy fiction works best when contrasted against harsh emotional, material, or political realities. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Books On Disillusionment, the End of Empire, and 9/11 Memes (Oh Yeah, and His New Novel): An Interview with Ron Currie Jr. A lazier writer would market this as “The Golden Girls meets Breaking Bad.” By Typebar_Admin / 24 Feb 2025
Books Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman, and the Horror of False Freedom The real tragedy is believing yourself free when freedom is impossible. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Lev Grossman's Neoliberal Hell on Earth: The True Terror Behind The Magicians Imagine if Pod Save America ran a magic school. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books An Unintended Critique of Manifest Destiny in H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness On dismal failure and death drives. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Claire Keegan and the Value of Waiting a Long Time for Something Short What we lose when we value production over precision. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Forget Edgar Allen Poe, What About Wilkie Collins? A Tribute to the Forgotten Father of the Detective Novel With 27 novels, more than 50 short stories and 15 plays, it’s time that Collins started to get the credit he deserved. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books Ritual & Responsibility: Subversion in The Wasp Factory and We Have Always Lived in the Castle There is nothing so commanding, right, or natural in the powers that be that a child cannot toss them aside. By Typebar_Admin / 29 Nov 2024
Books All That is Solid Melts Into Air: A Review of Stories are Weapons Several significant flaws prevent this book from being a useful treatise on the American culture wars. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Michel Houellebecq and the Birth of the Incel “The idea gradually dawned on me that all these people – men or women – were not in the least deranged; they were simply lacking in love.” By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
