Reviews
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Review of Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
One’s enjoyment of this collection may depend on one’s enthusiasm for wordplay. There is a significant amount of utterly clever portmanteuing. Buried beneath the lexical prestidigitation is a penchant for unconventional storytelling. Combining homages to classical mythology with post-modern shenanigans, Barth’s creative use of the English language is a rare…
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Review of Three Fantasies by John Cowper Powys
In the Afterward, Cavaliero draws a lot of biographical significance out of the farcical improvisation of the juvenilia of Powys in his dotage. This Beckettian collection of three novellas is both saddening and quirky At the forefront are confrontations with physical embodiments of Death. The skepticism of an animist, the…
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Review of My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays by Steven Moore
This is a book of professional book reviews, about 780 tall pages. All about writers from the 20th Century, with maybe a few exceptions for writers from the late 19th and early 21st. As explained in a closing essay, this is the pseudo-third volume of his Alternate History of the…
L. S. Popovich 