“He was an old dog,” says the Emmy-winning actor, writer and producer (whose new book is “Fleabag: The Scriptures”), “but I love how visceral his writing is.”
Jorge Comensal’s first novel, “The Mutations,” features an attorney rendered mute by tongue cancer who finds comfort in the profane squawks of a parrot.
The digital age ushered in new ways of reading — and revived old ones (the scroll and the ideogram). Could it also explain the rise of autofiction? Charles Finch considers.
“The Corner That Held Them,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, and “Medieval Bodies,” by Jack Hartnell, consider the pleasures and perils of life in the Middle Ages.
The new book by Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven residents of bankrupt Detroit, exposing the effects of decades of disinvestment and failed urban policy.