When We No Longer Believe: On Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place”
Rachel Cusk’s new novel is an uneasy exercise in philosophical abstraction.
Rachel Cusk’s new novel is an uneasy exercise in philosophical abstraction.
Toward a discursive, essayistic mode of lecturing.
Andrew Schenker gets caught in “Drifts,” the new novel from Kate Zambreno.
Andrew Schenker reviews Susan Steinberg’s novel, “Machine,” which dares its readers to find meaning along with its narrator.
A new edition of Robert Kirk’s classic anatomy of fairyland.
A memoir on the liminal state of sleeplessness and “mind wandering.”
Andrew Schenker celebrates the recovery of “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp” and “Inhuman Land” by Józef Czapski.
On the seriousness of play and the weirdness of “The Nutcracker.”
Andrew Schenker appreciates “The Glass Eye” by Jeannie Vanasco, a memoir that explores the search for meaning and the limits of metaphor.
Andrew Schenker explores Aaron Gilbreath's inner life.