The Mythology of Laszlo Krasznahorkai

An article of mine on László Krasznahorkai has been published at The Quarterly Conversation: All that is transitory is but a parable. Goethe, Faust II This line, meant by Goethe to indicate that our worldly ...

Thomas M. Disch Appendix

In dealing with Disch’s work, there was so much I had to leave out. I finished the article with an even greater respect for Disch’s achievement as well as a sadness that the rawness and ...

R. Sikoryak’s Masterpiece Comics

I’ve been reading Sikoryak’s parodies in one form or another since I was a teenager and saw “Good Ol’ Gregor Brown” (Charlie Brown does Kafka) in RAW. Finally they’ve been collected into a book. Here ...

“The Invention of Morel”, Adolfo Bioy Casares

Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo

Death in Rome, Wolfgang Koeppen