Book Review: Liu Xiaobo’s “No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems”
Poetry & Nonfiction Review By Jeffrey Yang
Book Review: Charles Yu’s Minor Universes
By Timothy Yu One of the most moving moments in Charles Yu’s debut collection, Third Class Superhero, comes from a grammatical distinction. In a story called “The Man Who Became Himself,” a man named David Howe has developed a strangely split consciousness. He eats breakfast with his wife, goes to work, feels angry or bored–yet [Continue Reading...]
Book Review: Tao Lin’s Richard Yates, Shoplifting at American Apparel, and Bed
By Vaman Tyrone X Richard Yates. Tao Lin. New York: Melville House, 2010. 208 pp. Shoplifting from American Apparel. Tao Lin. New York: Melville House, 2009. 112 pp. Bed. Tao Lin. New York: Melville House, 2007. 278 pp. David Foster Wallace concluded “E Unabus Pluram” with [Continue Reading...]
Book Review: Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction Review Reese Okyong Kwon Nocturnes. Kazuo Ishiguro. New York: Knopf, 2009. 240 pp. I. It must be appropriate to begin a discussion of the most recent book from Kazuo Ishiguro, that virtuoso ventriloquist, by invoking another writer entirely. In a recent essay, William Gass begins by warning us of the perils of retrospection: Don’t [Continue Reading...]
Book Review: Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea by Jane Jeong Trenka
Nonfiction Review Paul Lai Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea. Jane Jeong Trenka. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2009. 192 pp. In the world of literary non-fiction, memoirs have held sway as a bestselling genre for the United States reading public in the last couple of decades, and it may be [Continue Reading...]