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‘Love, In Theory’ by E.J. Levy

Viet Dinh
FictionReviews
2 min read
In this collection, love takes on many forms—heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, lesbian—but the infidelity remains constant. Betrayals, of one kind or another are the predominant catalysts for most of the stories, but Levy finds interesting tweaks on the matter. Read More

How to Make Self-Help Sexy: Risk and Writing in Augusten Burroughs’ ‘This is How’

TT Jax
NonfictionOpinion
4 min read

Acclaimed funny-guy and memoirist Augusten Burroughs' latest book, This is How: Help For the Self, Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude, and More, for Young and Old Alike (St. Martin's Press) is, as the title implies, an eclectic, entertaining, and refreshingly ill-tempered self-help book. Read More

‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families’ by Colm Tóibín

Sandy Leonard
NonfictionReviews
3 min read
“A happy childhood,” Colm Tóibín tells us, “may make good citizens, but it is not a help for those of us facing a blank page.” Withholding or meddlesome fathers, control-freak mothers, siblings whose sexual hijinks would make polite society shudder—these are the stimuli that fill blank pages with art. And Tóibín in New Ways to Kill Your Mother (Scribner) mines this potent field of twisted and troublesome literary families for all it’s worth. Read More