“Reminiscent of Hemingway’s assault on overwritten, adjectival prose, noir is short on metaphysics and restricts its action to the surface of the image.”
Category: Literature
[Review] Goya in the Wilderness: Louis Armand’s Abacus — Jim Chaffee
“If Armand is lucky this book will be recognized for the important literary work it is.”
[Review] Holy Nowhere by Nick Power — James Mcloughlin
“This is a collection that exists in the moments in-between, revelling in the feeling of twilight momentum viewed from the fringes”
[Essay] We’re All Jay Gatsby – Mariana Des Forges
“Like Gatsby’s commodified wealth, ‘Likes’ and ‘Retweets’ become the currency in which we quantify our self-worth”
[Essay] F.M. Mayor and Literary Modernism — Robert Firth
“The subtly crafted modernisms of isolation, doubt and disillusionment are rendered through both character and narrative form by situating both at a subjective and historical fault line marking the border between discontinuity and classic realist denouement.”
New Critique 