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Shades of Death

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

by Denis Johnson

April 19, 2018 issue

Chattering Spirits

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

April 20, 2017 issue

Never a Dull Moment

Joy Williams’s characters seem to be in the grip of a god or a demon and seem to be following orders whose logic even they could not possibly justify.

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

by Joy Williams

January 14, 2016 issue

The Judgment of Lovecraft

February 19, 2015 issue

The Hideous Unknown of H.P. Lovecraft

From generation to generation the cult of Lovecraft grows

The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, and with an introduction by Alan Moore

December 18, 2014 issue

Letter

S.T. Joshi

The Judgment of Lovecraft

February 19, 2015 issue

Which Banville Shall We Choose?

Ancient Light

by John Banville

Vengeance

by Benjamin Black

December 20, 2012 issue

Brute Force…Humanism

John Irving’s ‘In One Person’

In One Person

by John Irving

July 12, 2012 issue

A Different Kind of Delirium

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

by Don DeLillo

February 9, 2012 issue

Behind Murakami’s Mirror

The unrealism of 1Q84

1Q84

by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.

December 8, 2011 issue

Last Year at Crypt Park

by Tom McCarthy

November 25, 2010 issue

‘His Glory and His Curse’

Freedom

by Jonathan Franzen

September 30, 2010 issue

Stars Without Sky

Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem

February 25, 2010 issue

Flowering Porter

Collected Stories and Other Writings

by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue

June 11, 2009 issue