Wildly inventive—I never know where Link is going next in her stories and that’s half the fun. This collection felt tighter and more mature than MagicWildly inventive—I never know where Link is going next in her stories and that’s half the fun. This collection felt tighter and more mature than Magic for Non Beginners to me, and the stories were at times genuinely moving. Stil a bit of unevenness, but overall a great read....more
Proust + eschatology + Steven King + Borges + Saunders. This is a thriller where the action takes place offstage. This is a mystery that is literally Proust + eschatology + Steven King + Borges + Saunders. This is a thriller where the action takes place offstage. This is a mystery that is literally swallowed by the end of the world. This is a meditation where the loss of death as possibility enacts horror.
This is a reworking of A Time for Everything, but from the opposite side of the theological framework. That is, it’s still an investigation of the human and the beyond human, but one performed through a minute dissection of the human, faceted across 9 characters, and its ability to refract the non human as excess, and the resulting possibilities of afterlife and horror.
Pair this with Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders), The Fall (Stephenson), Sorrowland (Solomon), and the Odyssey. Actually, this makes me want to pull together a reading list for a course on ghosts in contemporary lit. …...more
Fierce and damning. Alternative future(?) history; sci-fi horror fantasy; allegory. Something in this novel will make you deeply uncomfortable, and thFierce and damning. Alternative future(?) history; sci-fi horror fantasy; allegory. Something in this novel will make you deeply uncomfortable, and that’s the part you sit with.
This one will stay with you; a haunting. Rivers Solomon isn’t the result of a government experiment on black bodies gone awry, but she’s the one channeling the past and resurrecting it via a process of reimagined memory....more
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