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Review: FOREST DARK by Nicole Krauss
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Review: FOREST DARK by Nicole Krauss

Forest Dark Nicole Krauss Harper Collins; September 2017 304 pp; $27.99 Buy: hardcover | eBook In February 2015, a small, easy-to-miss column appeared at the beginning of Elle magazine. Squeezed between advertisements, novelist Nicole Krauss wrote of her grandmother’s career as a door-to-door bra saleswoman in London from 1949 to 1954. Her grandmother wore a…

The Best Short Story I Read This Month: “The Kindest” by Sonya Larson
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The Best Short Story I Read This Month: “The Kindest” by Sonya Larson

Returning from the brink of death with a new lease on life: it’s a common trope in fiction and nonfiction alike. These stories are easy for the reader to believe, as one hopes that coming so close to the dark unknown would carry with it some sort of positive impact. But what if it doesn’t?

Imagining the Anthropocene: Anne Carson’s “The Anthropology of Water”

Imagining the Anthropocene: Anne Carson’s “The Anthropology of Water”

Along the course of a rugged pilgrimage, Carson’s defined formal structure enables the logical leaps that keep the speaker in a constant state of new encounter. As her mind’s constellated meanderings undercut the journey’s unceasing forward motion, “The Anthropology of Water” erodes assumptions of linear progress.