J.W. McCormack

Brutalist Fiction

J.W. McCormack

October 25, 2018

After reading Diane Williams, the classic short story seems like a sprawling black hole.

Begone, President!

J.W. McCormack

June 18, 2018

The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, merely confirms the claim of its title.

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.

The Ovid of Loserdom

J.W. McCormack

January 22, 2018

In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.

The Story of a Face

J.W. McCormack

January 3, 2018

We are trying to read the story of a teenage girl, but Marguerite Duras is trying to tell us something else.

Tom Hanks: Typewriter Fetishist

J.W. McCormack

October 18, 2017

The impregnable constellation we call “Tom Hanks" has gifted us with a collection of typewriter-fetish fiction.

The Past Is a Foreign Agent

J.W. McCormack

September 19, 2017

The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.