Writer. Teacher. Photographer.
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent (trans. from Russian by Polly Gannon) In the world of books, we reserve the word ‘opus’ for works that are generally long. Hefty hardbacks that weigh heavier than bricks, things that make you go ‘ooph’ when you pick them off the bookshelves or get them in the post, daunting in the […]
There’s an invisible man in my room watching me. I assume he’s leaning against the wall in the corner, next to the unplugged dehumidifier. Of course, he could be standing right over me, his breath infinitesimally dampening the pages of my library book, The Visible Man. Speaking of which, the invisible man, according to the […]
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned reminds me of the language in which we use to describe UFC cards. Nine short stories, blander at the bottom, stories with lots of jabs and one-two combos.Broken American families plagued by divorce, children and adults left to navigate the underground tunnels dug or left behind by other loved ones, people […]
Joel Mak 