All posts by Julian Novitz
Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is…
Here comes the pandemic fiction: murder, disease and life after death in Steve Toltz’s Here Goes Nothing
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The afterlife, as depicted in Steve Toltz’s latest novel Here Goes Nothing, turns out to be somewhat disappointing. There are no heavenly rewards or seething lakes of fire. If there are any reunions with lost family and loved…