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Theatre of the Absurd: Audiences Assaulting Fictional ‘Nazis’—On Stage and Off

Steven Tucker March 7, 2026

Repeatedly and inaccurately—on stage, on-screen, and in the media—calling people ‘fascists’ who are in fact just perfectly ordinary people who happen to think differently can provoke unpleasant real-life consequences.

Epstein, Marías, and the Function of Fiction

Kurt Hofer November 5, 2024

I understand that by reading late in the night, I am transformed into what I am reading.

Rebuilding R’lyeh: Houellebecq, Lovecraft, and the Meaning of Architecture

Steven Tucker October 31, 2024

Modern architecture is meant to transform human beings into alien beings upon their own former home-world.

The Last Mystery

J.C. Scharl June 22, 2023

History is a story that is at once true and false, a story in which truth sometimes requires us to record a falsehood, if only so we do not forget that a falsehood was once told.

Plague Management: plus ça change

Roger Watson February 15, 2023

Orhan Pamuk is a masterful writer. His books all open in such a way that you know they are going to be hard to put down.

Manfred Arcane, Counter-Revolutionary Demon Fighter

Alberto M. Fernandez December 12, 2022

For today’s conservatives enduring the assaults of the constant neo-Jacobin revolution of today, the adventures of Manfred Arcane are seductively reactionary.

The Magic of Old

Daria Fedotova August 4, 2022

The novel treats Britain’s past with the utmost respect it deserves; the regency world is presented to the reader in all its glory. Susanna Clarke does not betray its spirit by infusing it with modern culture, unlike so many other representations of the period.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Trauma, Sin, and Providence in Kristin Lavransdatter

Felix James Miller July 30, 2022

Reading Sigrid Undset’s trilogy challenges readers to confront their own moral vacillations and need for constancy.

Feverish Episodes of Nazi Reverie

Alberto M. Fernandez May 10, 2022

As a work of serial military fabulism, Ezquerra’s book is an interesting cultural artifact. I laughed more than once at the author’s sheer gall, but Ezquerra himself is an unpleasant figure. A literary liar is bad enough; a Nazi literary liar seems even more obscene.

Heaven Bleeds Backwards into our Lives

J.C. Scharl May 2, 2022

The novel illustrates St. Catherine of Siena’s famous quote, “The path to Heaven is Heaven.” St. Catherine did not say whether the path felt like Heaven at the time, but she was certain that it was, in all essentials, Heaven. In other words, Heaven bleeds backwards into our lives, until every moment is colored with its otherworldly hues. That is the feat Vodolazkin accomplishes in this novel.

Tag: fiction

Theatre of the Absurd: Audiences Assaulting Fictional ‘Nazis’—On Stage and Off

Epstein, Marías, and the Function of Fiction

Rebuilding R’lyeh: Houellebecq, Lovecraft, and the Meaning of Architecture

The Last Mystery

Plague Management: plus ça change

Manfred Arcane, Counter-Revolutionary Demon Fighter

The Magic of Old

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Trauma, Sin, and Providence in Kristin Lavransdatter

Feverish Episodes of Nazi Reverie

Heaven Bleeds Backwards into our Lives

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