Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation: Dystopia Unbound in Late Postmodernism
Annihilation (Anéantir) By Michel Houellebecq. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Hardcover, 544 pages, $30.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. France in 2027 is the setting of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Annihilation (Anéantir)....
Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy
The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...
An Unsettling Sense of Justice
A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall. Livingston Press, 2023. Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...
A Modern Dostoevsky–Almost
The Morning Star: A Novel By Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Martin Aitken. Penguin Books, 2021. Paperback, 688 pages, $19. Reviewed by Jeffrey Wald. In “Feodor’s Guide,” David Foster Wallace’s 1996 review of Joseph Frank’s four-volume biography of Dostoevsky,...
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